Part one of term paper
puts enough stress on people that an accidental nuclear war could be the result. With more and more of the superpowers defences being controlled by complex computers, the chance of a malfunction increases as well. Add this to normal human error and governmental mistakes and you have a recipe for disaster. For this paper I will be describi ...

Part two of term paper
... all lead to inadvertent nuclear war. In the 1950's a flock of geese was mistaken for a squadron of Russian bombers, and in 1960 a radar beam reflecting off the moon duplicated a Soviet ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile)(Barbara Marsh, p.65). Both of these false alarms were detected in time to halt a counter-strike mainly because it was peace time and no one's finger poised over the "button". During a crisis, peoples high levels of stress create suspicions where there shouldn't be, and ...