I don’t think you’ll be able to retaliate if the site is down.
In the message sent to holders of launch codes that’s repeated in this post, it says:
LessWrong and the EA Forum both have second-strike capability that will last one hour.
The site will remain up for one hour with a message that a missile is incoming (based on what I described here), and that message could be a false alarm.
Hmm, actually, it’s not clear to me whether the site will go down immediately (with the button in tact) or after an hour.
I don’t think you’ll be able to retaliate if the site is down.
In the message sent to holders of launch codes that’s repeated in this post, it says:
The site will remain up for one hour with a message that a missile is incoming (based on what I described here), and that message could be a false alarm.
Hmm, actually, it’s not clear to me whether the site will go down immediately (with the button in tact) or after an hour.