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accidental attack |
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An unintended attack which occurs without deliberate national design as a direct result of a random event, such as a mechanical failure, a simple human error, or an unauthorized action by a subordinate. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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forces, one year
earlier, bombed al-Jazeera's Baghdad offices, killing reporter
Tareq Ayoub, after the network naively gave its GPS coordinates to the
Pentagon in order to prevent an accidental attack.
A consistent and vigorous international effort must bring the two
nuclear nations to accept the responsibilities of their foolish weapons
build-up: to start with, promises from both sides of no first use and
then safeguards to prevent an accidental attack. |
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