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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What questions are you thinking about? How does technology available in different eras affect how the weapons use questions are framed? Important to study as groundwork for today's practices and discussion?
I don't want to speak for Patrick but typically historians of tech see these things as dynamic systems — technology and policy kind of winding around each other, shaping various imaginations in turn. Not a one way street from either end (which is to say, it's not an issue of
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which technology shaped the policy, or which policy shaped the technology, but both, simultaneously, either trading off on the leading/following or in a "both at the same time" sort of thing).
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