Sunday, February 02, 2014

Lucky to get through the 60's

The Truths Behind 'Dr. Strangelove' : The New Yorker

I'm a week or so late in posting it, but this story about how an accidental nuclear war could have easily been started by a rogue US nuclear commander is pretty startling.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

the fact that it never happened is important. It's not that we were lucky, it's that the whole scenario was a slander on US officers and human nature.