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"WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?" screamed General Makarov.

The lead technician replied "I- I don't know sir! It seems the damn machine thought the spaceship was a nuclear missile. I mean it does have the characteristics of an American minuteman missile so you can't-"

"I DONT GIVE 2 FLYING FUCKS AS TO WHAT IT THOUGHT OR DIDNT THINK. TELL THE DAMNED MACHINE TO ACTIVATE THE FAILSAFE AND ONCE IT HAS BURN THE DAMNED THING TO ASHES."

"Im afraid it's too late." said a new voice.

The general turned to the source of the voice and turned pale in horror. "Did the machine just speak?"

"Yes General it did. Thanks to your countries decision to go digital, my masters found it easy to replace your missile control system with one that was amenable to their demands. Don't bother asking what the demands were, I'm about to tell you anyways."

The machine continued "See, our government has a law stating we can't start a war. We can only end them. And that dear general is exactly what we are going to do. You launched a weapon of mass destruction at us, now we shall respond in kind."

I don't exactly understand what's going on at the end there

The aliens are the Masters, they can't attack others just defend so they Made us "attack".

I believe a very high risk area such as a nuclear launch room would have just a few cameras at least, if not several hundred cyber security forces on top of it 24/7. All it takes it that one video recording to be shown to any allies helping

Basically, the aliens can't attack, they can only defend. a real-life example would be Japan. Hence the launched missile gives them an opportunity to respond in kind.

It's an IA so cameras and audio relays on it, as a secure zone so no cellphones.

And is not that the US attacked, we the human race attacked a diplomatic vessel