"Williamknowsbest" <William.M... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message

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Say through some terrible mishap with software all intelligence assets
became avaialble real time through Google Earth and the missile
command centers of all major powers made 10,000 strategic missiles
available to online to launch at any designated target by specifying a
missile and a target on Google Earth.

So, anyone in the world could read any intelligence information
available real time from any resource they wanted, and command
strategic, theater and tactical weapons to launch at any target they
wanted..

What would happen?

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I think that getting that 'intelligence' stuff out in
the open where scholars could work on it and develop
what's going on here, would be a first-rate idea.  It
seems to be in the human character that corruption
festers rapidly under *anybody's* secrecy.

However, I think that in this situation, there'd be
no time for study and evaluation.  Rather, those
missiles would begin popping off immediately (there
are those people around who don't need time for
reflection about consequences) and like in the old
box-of-mousetraps nuclear illustration soon after the
end of WW2, you'd shortly wind up with a world full
of deadly hot rubble, economic systems destroyed, and
survivors facing a hopeless 'nasty, brutish, and
short' future.

"And that's the way it is" -- mha
[sci.space.policy  2008 May 4]

Say through some terrible mishap with software all intelligence assets
became avaialble real time through Google Earth and the missile
command centers of all major powers made 10,000 strategic missiles
available to online to launch at any designated target by specifying a
missile and a target on Google Earth.

So, anyone in the world could read any intelligence information
available real time from any resource they wanted, and command
strategic, theater and tactical weapons to launch at any target they
wanted..

What would happen?

Say through some terrible mishap with software all intelligence assets
became avaialble real time through Google Earth and the missile
command centers of all major powers made 10,000 strategic missiles
available to online to launch at any designated target by specifying a
missile and a target on Google Earth.

So, anyone in the world could read any intelligence information
available real time from any resource they wanted, and command
strategic, theater and tactical weapons to launch at any target they
wanted..

What would happen?
How long would we survive?
Who would be the first targeted?
Who would be the last?
What targets (if any) would you launch toward?
Who would be the first?
Who would be the last?
Would you notify authorities and tell others not to get on the site?
Would you launch as many missiles as you could before the site was
taken down?

"Williamknowsbest" <William.M... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message

news:e848940a-4ed3-482e-9a3b-d38da14439f9 at (no spam) y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

Say through some terrible mishap with software all intelligence assets
became avaialble real time through Google Earth and the missile
command centers of all major powers made 10,000 strategic missiles
available to online to launch at any designated target by specifying a
missile and a target on Google Earth.

So, anyone in the world could read any intelligence information
available real time from any resource they wanted, and command
strategic, theater and tactical weapons to launch at any target they
wanted..

I'd fire all the missiles at once. Without hesitating ....except to find
the coordinates for a particularly lonely part of the pacific.

And poof, no more nukes to worry about.