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October 27, 1962. The crew of the Soviet submarine B-59 was exhausted, overheated, and cut off from Moscow. U.S. ships were dropping signaling depth charges. The Americans did not know the submarine carried a nuclear torpedo. The Soviet officers did not know whether war had already begun.
Vasily Arkhipov helped prevent a launch.
That episode matters in the age of AI because catastrophe did not require an evil machine. It required incomplete information, extreme pressure, disappearing time, and a system that made escalation appear rational.
My second long-form article traces that problem across four technological revolutions—from Crimean War railways and telegraphy to mass production, nuclear warning systems, autonomous weapons, and military AI.
The central argument is deliberately narrow: technology rarely creates the political reason for war, but it changes the scale of violence, the cost of action, and the time available to discover a mistake.
The article includes two documented human cases, four scenarios for 2026-2046, a map of who gains and who pays, and a test showing what evidence would change the conclusion.
The question I cannot dismiss is this: if an AI system gives an operator eight minutes to act, but cannot explain its recommendation, does the operator still have meaningful control?
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