Well, if there are 4 independent switches.

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bowser — 9/27/2013 6:36:09 AM (archived)

Someplace on the weapon there is a place which monitors and checks to see that all 4 switches have been activated.

If the short circuit was in that totalizer, I can see where there could be problems. I'm sure it could be designed to make that possibility remote, and I can see where at least theoretically there could be a weak point.

As far as accidental detonations, clearly that hasn't happened. However, we, that is folks like you and I, don't have the slightest idea how many close calls there have been. Could be none, could be hundreds.

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The day we almost lost Goldsboro - TB - 9/21/2013 5:02:26 PM
- Does: "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe"... - alcaray - 9/21/2013 9:00:12 PM
  - I'm wondering if there could have been a back door to the described situation. - bowser - 9/26/2013 12:51:27 AM
    - Maybe, but if they were that poorly designed, wouldn't there have been a lot of accidents? - alcaray - 9/26/2013 8:02:11 AM
      - Well, if there are 4 independent switches. - bowser - 9/27/2013 6:36:09 AM
        
        Not so. - alcaray - 9/27/2013 4:29:53 PM
        
        My handgun is a poor example. - bowser - 9/27/2013 5:48:31 PM
        
        a device is a device - alcaray - 9/27/2013 9:26:42 PM
        
        One last attempt. - bowser - 9/28/2013 3:05:37 AM
- I find this hard to believe. - ER - 9/21/2013 8:00:30 PM
  - Yeah, me too, when I look at it. - TB - 9/21/2013 8:15:21 PM

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