Experts sound alarm: the war between nuclear powers can start quite by accident. Analysts from Washington came to the conclusion that using the same surveillance systems for both weapons of mass destruction and conventional weapons is fraught with the danger of unleashing a world conflict. The system can get confused and respond with a nuclear strike to an attack using non-nuclear weapons, warns the publication of the National Interest. In addition to the technical danger of an accidental nuclear strike, countries that possess such weapons often disguise the deployment of their missiles of mass destruction. Thus, Russian submarines with missiles with nuclear warheads are stationed in the same places as submarines with conventional armament,.

The lack of a sufficient number of specialized military observation satellites can also contribute to the accidental start of a war between superpowers. In order not to plunge mankind into the abyss of nuclear catastrophe, countries must share nuclear and non-nuclear weapons, or even better, develop such satellites that will react only to nuclear warheads. However, since this project will require serious financial costs, the powers are unlikely to agree to it, experts say..