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Close Call
Was reading an article on nuclear close calls and this one was pretty interesting:
At 8:50 a.m. on November 9, 1979, duty officers at 4 command centers (NORAD HQ, SAC Command Post, The Pentagon National Military Command Center, and the Alternate National Military Command Center) all saw on their displays a pattern showing a large number of Soviet Missiles in a full scale attack on the U.S.A. During the next 6 minutes emergency preparations for retaliation were made. A number of Air Force planes were launched, including the President's National Emergency Airborne Command Post, though without the President! The President had not been informed, perhaps because he could not be found. No attempt was made to use the hot line either to ascertain the Soviet intentions or to tell the Soviets the reasons for U.S. actions. This seems to me to have been culpable negligence. The whole purpose of the "Hot Line" was to prevent exactly the type of disaster that was threatening at that moment. With commendable speed, NORAD was able to contact PAVE PAWS early warning radar and learn that no missiles had been reported. Also, the sensors on the satellites were functioning that day and had detected no missiles. In only 6 minutes the threat assessment conference was terminated. The reason for the false alarm was an exercise tape running on the computer system. U.S. Senator Charles Percy happened to be in NORAD HQ at the time and is reported to have said there was absolute panic. A question was asked in Congress. The General Accounting Office conducted an investigation, and an off-site testing facility was constructed so that test tapes did not in the future have to be run on a system that could be in military operation.
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If that came from a website, I'd like to see it.....
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Will do. I'll post it later. There were multiple sites that I found it on, including wikipedia.org
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Lets Play Global Thermonuclear War...........
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From Wikipedia.org's article on World War III (hypothetical):
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War, an apocalyptic war between the United States and USSR was considered likely. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 is generally thought to be the historical point at which the risk of World War III was closest. Other potential starts have included the following (see External links below for further examples):
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Also, I had no idea about this guy:
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов) was a Soviet naval officer. On October 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of 11 United States Navy destroyers headed by the aircraft carrier USS Randolph entrapped a nuclear-armed Soviet Foxtrot class submarine B-59 near Cuba and started dropping depth charges. Allegedly, the captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky, believing that a war might already have started, prepared to launch a retaliatory nuclear-tipped torpedo. Three officers on board the submarine - Savitsky, Political Officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and Commander Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov - were entitled to launch the torpedo if they agreed unanimously in favour of doing so. An argument broke out between the three, in which only Arkhipov was against making the attack, eventually persuading Savitsky to surface the submarine and await orders from Moscow. The nuclear war which presumably would have ensued was thus averted. At the conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis held in Havana on October 13, 2002, Robert McNamara admitted that nuclear war had come much closer than people had thought. Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, said that "a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world." In the 2002 book of Aleksandr Mozgovoy Cuban Samba of the "Foxtrot" Quartet: Soviet Submarines during the Year 1962 Caribbean Crisis (ISBN 5773400413), the participant of the events, retired Commander Vadim Pavlovich Orlov presents the events less dramatically (Captain lost his temper, but the two other officers calmed him down).
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The good old days
When one knew who the enemy was, We have larger issues today. You don't need to have a missile to start a nuclear war. You can fit a small one in a breifcase today. Now i am more worry then when I grew up in the 60's and 70's.
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I did some reading on the so-called "suitcase" nukes. They actually aren't briefcase size -- at least none of the ones, the Soviets ever employed. They are large luggage bag size (we're talking the LL Bean pull bag with wheels that fits 7 days worth of close). Still portable but not something a guy like me just casually walks in with and detonates.
I'll see if I can find a good article on them and post it.
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"Greetings professor Faulken, would you like to play a game?"
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