Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

The typical air base had only seven dummy weapons, SAC claimed, a scarcity that made it necessary to train with real ones.

This reminds me a lot of the way we test GrassService. We cannot set up all the dependencies for a test environment, so we shrug it off and test in production. Our failures are unlikely to vaporize anyone, however.