Software for Ballistic Missile Defense
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A battle management system for comprehensive ballistic missile defense must perform with near perfection and extraordinarily reliability. It will be complex to an unprecedented degree, untestable in a realistic environment, and provide minimal time for human intervention. The feasibility of designing and developing such a system (requiring upwards of ten million lines of code) is examined in light of the scale of the project, the difficulty of testing the system in order to remove errors, the management effort required, and the interaction of hardware and software difficulties. The conclusion is that software considerations alone would make the feasibility of a "fully reliable" comprehensive defense against ballistic missiles questionable. IMPORTANT NOTE: this version supersedes a widely circulated but earlier draft entitled "Military Software and BMD: An Insoluble Problem?" dated February 1985. Software for Ballistic Missile Defense
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