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I'm skeptical there exists a system to automatically fire nukes at something and it has never had a false positive. Especially (chauvinistically) under control of the Russians through the fall of the the USSR.

I'm not sure a terrestrial power could do this without being way visible ahead of time.

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I agree with you. Even (not chauvinistacally) under control of the USA, EU, China, Japan, India or Australia.

In a few cases Russian military officers like Stanislav Petrov have ignored protocol, not fired their nukes, and prevented global nuclear war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

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