A discussion from 1969 about false alarms. The BMEWS radar system produced 40-50 false nuclear attack alerts per year — that's around one per week!pic.twitter.com/OLXga74SXW
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Interesting...I suppose a good deal has been written about intersection of hist of tech + nuke policy w.r.t. "launch on warning" issue
Less of that than you might think.. the bias in nuclear history is towards diplomatic/political, because almost all academic nuclear historians are poli sci/IR/policy history people. This produces predictable effects on the scholarship, e.g. little engagement w serious hist/tech.
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(Realizing this was kind of an a-ha moment for me recently. I was trying to figure out why so many people had worked on some of these same questions but never framed them the way I find natural to frame them. And I realized it is in part a disciplinary issue.)
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Hmm. That was my sense 15 years ago when I first started teaching my Nuke Age class. (which needs to be totally fissioned apart and fused back together as it's dated now). I guess I thought last decade or so would have seen more integration of areas.
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