"when in doubt, launch nukes. your superiors will deal with the fallout."
(scenario (but not the pun) depicted in the 1964 movie ironically named Fail Safe.)
this order must exist (perhaps implicitly) in nuclear launch protocols, because nothing is truly certain in reality; there is (in reality, though perhaps not the mind of the operator pushing the button) always some doubt. quantify how much the order exists: uncertainty (as a probability) must be less than P.
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