So I'm the one who asked about the floppy disks controlling nuclear bombs question, and I felt I should clairfy something (in a more permanent place than YouTube comments) (yeah I've only just now seen it):
I wasn't so much asking about the possiblity of the floppy disk failing and we can't launch the nuclear bomb, I more so meant the floppy disk fails during regular maintence or something and the nuclear bomb goes off in place in the US - basically a scenario where we weren't even trying to fire it.
But you know, I got to thinking about it, and if a floppy disk failing to read was enough to make a nuclear bomb explode, then its actually far more likely that something else would have gone wrong much earlier and we'd have had a Chernobyl already at this point.
The main spark for this question was that in the YouTube video where I first heard about it (The 8-Bit Guy's "How Old School Floppy Drives Worked"), David Murray made the claim that those 8-inch floppies the nuclear bombs used were actually super reliable, since those were made in the early 70s and to a much higher standard (and therefore were more expensive). I kinda was interested in hearing your response to such a claim (and still am to some extent), but again, thinking about it, I'm not sure it would be worth an whole question in another videochat, not to mention it would kinda sorta be my third question in a row that involved floppy disks, and I don't want to come off as a floppy disk evangelist, I don't think that highly of them.
I probably should have claified what I meant in the question, so sorry for the slight confusion!
