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Originally Posted by TrailerParkJawa
I think we were very lucky that there was never an actual nuclear exchange either but accident, during a crisis, or a time of mistaken intentions. It is kinda scary really, I was a teen in the 80's and at the time wasn't afraid of a nuclear war because I thought MAD worked.
But it never occurred to me at that time that someone might just screw up.
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It's like the code "Broken Arrow" --The weapons officer had a good point when he said something like, "I don't know if I'm more afraid that it happened or that it happens so often that they have a code name for it."
Now that it is known to the public, I wonder what the current code name is for a lost nuclear weapon?