Part of A, part of B. Lots of people in Russia and the wider Soviet Union, particularly older people, look back at the days of the Soviet Union with fondness, as times were better back then. Even if … (View Post)

Well, from the English summary of the report I've seen, there were precursors to this issue, and the reaction to those smaller issues led to the larger failure hours later. So I'd expect th… (View Post)

Using the Swiss Cheese Model idea, *if* one person had that much responsibility and it led to this issue, then that's actually a systematic failure as well. And perhaps a more important causal f… (View Post)

What would you do with the 200,000 unwanted babies a year? Put them all in the care system? (View Post)

That story is more fascinating the more you dive down into the details of it. As an example, because the US used imperial and the Russians metric, the Russians did not have sheet steel of the right t… (View Post)