Interesting nuclear fact
I know....it is not aviation but it is controlled by the Air Force. And I thought that it was interesting. I'm sure some of the alert pilots of the old days can relate to the extreme safety precautions.
"The silos are connected to each other and to the missile launch control centers by thousands of miles of Hardened Intersite Cable System cable, which carry crucial communications.
“You can imagine with the distances involved as well as the redundancies: You’ve got thousands if not tens of thousands miles of that buried under Farmer Brown’s corn,” says John Watson, a missile systems test engineer for the 309th MMXG. “The reason for the redundancies is that if a portion of this squadron gets wiped out, either due to a natural disaster or an incoming missile strike, one of the surviving launch control centers could eventually find a path to any orphan [launch facility] to continue on with the mission.
“They didn’t double up, they didn’t triple up, they quadrupled up in most cases,” he stresses.
This level of redundancy also ensures that if one crew goes rogue and begins enabling a missile launch, the other crews will see that activity and be able to cancel the launch"