Editing Mutual assured destruction (section)

==== Perfect rationality ====
* No rogue commanders will have the ability to corrupt the launch decision process. Such an incident very nearly occurred during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] when an argument broke out aboard a nuclear-armed submarine cut off from radio communication. The second-in-command, [[Vasily Arkhipov (vice admiral)|Vasili Arkhipov]], refused to launch despite an order from Captain Savitsky to do so.<ref name="Globe">{{Cite news|url= http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cold-war/sovietsbomb.htm | date=13 October 2002 |first=Marion |last=Lloyd | journal=[[Boston Globe]] |title=Soviets Close to Using A-Bomb in 1962 Crisis, Forum is Told |access-date=7 August 2012 |pages=A20}}</ref>
* All leaders with launch capability seem to care about the survival of their citizens. [[Winston Churchill]] is quoted as saying that any strategy will not "cover the case of lunatics or dictators in the mood of [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] when he found himself in his final dugout."<ref>Cited in Wolfgang Panofsky, "The Mutual-Hostage Relations between America and Russia," ''Foreign Affairs'', 52/1, (October 1973): p 118.</ref>