Subj : Re: Are there any simple BBC internet radio programs for the Pi? To : wmartin From : Ahem A Rivet's Shot Date : Fri Sep 06 2024 20:43:55 On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:24:17 -0700 wmartin wrote: > You want scary? It's not fictional. In 1985 the Soviet Union activated > what they called the "Perimeter System" aka "Dead Hand", which once > activated would look for signs of a nuclear strike on the "homeland", > and if the algorithm decided they had been attacked, would launch every > icbm in the arsenal, all pre-targeted. Still operational under the > Russian Federation. AT least it would attempt to - I read at the time that when the cold war ended and a lot of weapons were decomissioned with witnesses a good many of them would have failed to either launch or go off. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/ For forms of government let fools contest Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .