[srmanuel]

That would be the ultimate doomsday scenario....

If both sides start to ratchet this up, how long before it’s the Air Traffic Control system that goes haywire and few jets crash into each other...

Or rolling blackouts begin...

Or Wall Street becomes unstable...

Or Financial/ATM networks go down, especially nerve racking given most people don’t carry cash anymore...

[Zhang Fei]

[If both sides start to ratchet this up, how long before it’s the Air Traffic Control system that goes haywire and few jets crash into each other...
Or rolling blackouts begin...
Or Wall Street becomes unstable...
Or Financial/ATM networks go down, especially nerve racking given most people don’t carry cash anymore...]

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It’s the kind of thing you might want to do in the middle of a war. In peacetime, it’s just not that big a deal to fix. In wartime, given that resources will be stretched to their limits, it might be irreparable. That’s just another sub rosa reason for keeping capabilities on the down low. In fact, it might be carefully concealed through an entire war, unless something critical occurred that required it to be used in a way that resulted in exposure.