be your own Stanislas Petrov

December 21, 2008 in intelligence and stupidity, nukes, open source, Russia, space

Remember this post? Well, Geoff Forden at Arms Control Wonk has a brilliant series on the system that Stanislav Petrov was monitoring, how it worked, what went wrong, and how to draw conclusions from pictures of a missile launch with Google Earth. And why you should worry now.