Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

Appendix . Epilogue

	“You can’t possibly analyze things properly within a couple of minutes. All you can rely on is your intuition. I had two arguments to fall back on. First, missile attacks do not start from just one base. Second, the computer is, by definition, brainless. There are lots of things it can mistake for a missile launch.”
	--Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov

	“The Russians saw a U.S. government preparing for a first strike, headed by a President capable of ordering a first strike...I think that this is the closest we’ve come to accidental nuclear war.”
	--Bruce Blair, Nuclear strategy expert, Dateline NBC

The world as we know it almost ended on September 26, 1983.^[1] Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was standing watch at Serpukhov-15, ...