Re: [GZG] [ot] need help of UK natives

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:50:05PM +0000, Ground Zero Games wrote:

>Yes, I'd agree with Tom's assessment - the point the article is 
>making, I think, is that the arming mechanism relied on a very simple 
>and not-terribly-secure lock, without even a double-key system, which 
>implied that we were pretty confident that no British officer was 
>going to go all Doctor Strangelove on us....  ;-)

Also so that we could set them off without first getting the Americans'
permission, which is what a PAL system would in practice have involved.

(There is a recurring rumour that our Vanguard-class boomer captains are
commanded to launch on their preset targets if The Archers is not
broadcast on schedule for two days in a row. Non-British people, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archers .)

R

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