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Daniel Ellsberg
@DanielEllsberg
A "human error" like yesterday’s in Hawaii could, at any time, end nearly all human life, by triggering the US or Russian Doomsday Machines. It is a human error ever to have brought these systems into existence. Either they go, or we will.
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Edward Snowden
@Snowden
As fun as it is to read four-hour experts on Hawaii's nuclear false alarm, if you're curious to learn from one who literally helped write our nuclear war plans, the father of American whistleblowing, @DanielEllsberg, just published a tell-all: amazon.com/Doomsday-Machi
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Francis Jeffrey
@FrancisJeffrey7
Not a Joke. Reagan's "STAR WARS" strategic defense initiative ("SDI") in 1980s was dropped b/c analysis showed the software could not be verified, nor tested in realistic conditions. Today, adding #AI artificial intelligence only mades it less predictable.
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Francis Jeffrey
@FrancisJeffrey7
#Dr_Strangelove youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6Kb bcc:@realDonaldTrump #Peter_Sellers #George_C_Scott #Stanley_Kubrick &Arthur C Clarke #HAL_Problems
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Vicki Whatever
@Vickiwhatever
I am going to get your book sir. "I have become the destroyer of worlds " was Oppenheimer's words that have always stayed with me. As well as the description found in my bible of what a nuclear bomb will do to a person. If you don't mind I would like to include it, please. "Their
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Sean Champ
@spchamp
Regrettably have muted Mr. Snowden. The wake of IEEE VAST 2008 afaict entails no small can of singularly conspirstorial worms, no matter whomever has sought #celebrity of it. Alarmed abt extreme nature and timing of this week's False Alarm, nobody investigating it further as yet?