raltbos@xs4all.nl
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:20:56 GMT
> All missile launches...including subs...have a missile safety officer
> Their sole job is to have their finger on the detonate button if something
> goes wrong.
That, however, is not the problem. The problem is that the Prime Minister - the recently succeeding, not personally elected PM -- knew about this test, and failed to inform Parliament. And she committed this lapse of faith, not in time of war when such leaks might have lead to panic, but at the time of a parliamentary debate on the future of Trident itself, when such information, including necessary technical nuances such as yours, was definitely due to the MPs. Would this added information have changed the outcome of the decision? _Should_ it have? Nobody can now tell. But one thing is certain: Theresa May treated her Parliament with disdain and a lack of /bona fide/, and _that_, regardless of any missile test, is well worth getting riled up about.
> The extremely poor scientific reporting that goes on in the media leaves a
> lot of people with bad and/or incomplete information....
This is true enough, but this scandal is not about the science, but about the political misbehaviour afterward.