Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•UK's Trident nuclear-deterrent missile system misfires during test
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9 months agoNuclear deterrent because it’s submarine-borne. If a country makes a first strike on the UK, their submarines, which are ideally hidden and steaming around in oceans somewhere, can make a retaliation strike. They’re still equipped with nuclear warheads but aren’t necessarily intended for a first strike.
You can destroy the UK, but you won’t escape unscathed.
Why should the interviewee assume that?
This could very well be a test to see if the applicant has an idea of how a project scales or how they need to interact with other departments or track down compliance information. It could also test the applicant’s ability to provide a sanity check to a boss’s idea before they pitch something that the team can’t actually do