The US and Russia have a policy of mutually asured destruction. An example of the policy was used in the movie "Wargames." The US will not fire an accidental missile due to Y2K, simple because it requires a person to turn a key after entering the launch codes to launch a missile. The russians also have a system which requires human intervention. Both countries use this system to one, prevent a person from comporomising military computer systems and launching the missiles itself, or a bug accidentally launching the nukes. I assure you that russian and us departments of defence take this issue far more seriously than we do.
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The US and Russia have a policy of mutually asured destruction. An example of the policy was used in the movie "Wargames." The US will not fire an accidental missile due to Y2K, simple because it requires a person to turn a key after entering the launch codes to launch a missile. The russians also have a system which requires human intervention. Both countries use this system to one, prevent a person from comporomising military computer systems and launching the missiles itself, or a bug accidentally launching the nukes. I assure you that russian and us departments of defence take this issue far more seriously than we do.