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Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
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Thu, 5 Nov 1998 08:33:01 GMT
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Moz (Chris Moseley) wrote in message ...

Was it just "war games" or didn't they have a sub 50% launch rate from
manned sites in trials? Like, half the time the boys would choose not to
set the thing off? So there was some incentive to have remote firing
capabilities?


Just War Games, AFAIK.  Although I do know that they ran test firings a lot
to make sure that people would actually turn the keys when they needed to.

Jesse

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  Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
 
Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote (...) Was it just "war games" or didn't they have a sub 50% launch rate from manned sites in trials? Like, half the time the boys would choose not to set the thing off? So there was some incentive to have (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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