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[–] 6 points 2 years ago*

You wouldn't even need a working one. A lot of nuclear responses work by going off the moment a likely missile fitting that criteria launches, since it would be too late otherwise.

Someone making the wrong decision at a given time could easily cause everything to go up in a nuclear conflagration. It's nearly happened before.

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