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Originally Posted by prince albert:

no I served in the Military and understand that everything we have is not out there for people to see, no doubt we have Subs laying in easy reach of Russia and China,but what they wanted to show is that they could destroy Washington by the time they could start to retaliate, and there is one of our Sub Bases close by in Florida, it was for show this time, and anybody that knows anything knows that you won't win a Nuclear War, two Countries may have a Nuclear war but the Radiation from it will cover the Earth and then everybody Dies, but ya'll know that we have North Korea and Iran which might start a war any time the Iranians hate Israel so much.

 

Do ya'll know that in 1983 we were 10 minutes from total destruction? this is per National Geographic and one Russian that was filling in for one of his Buddies that day refused to launch the Russian Missiles, it was a computer Glitch, according to it 1 american Missile was launched then a few minutes it would show another one launched until there was 5 in the Air, but his reasoning was that if we launched an attack it would be massive the Russians threw him out of the military for disobeying an order to launch but I am glad he didn't.

 

if the man had been there that day that was supposed to have been there we might not exist now, God works in mysterious ways.

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Ah. Col. Petrov.

Not god, but a smart Russian guy. 

The Russians had just implemented a satellite system with 2 in a 'molniya' orbit (elliptical) to watch for missile exhaust plumes against the black background of space. Trouble is they didn't also have a geostationary satellite to use as a reference for the other two.

September 26, 1983.

The sats, mistaking the sun glinting off some clouds on the horizon, mistook them for inbound missiles. After checking with his ground OTH radar locations (Duga-1 thru 3) and receiving no reports of incoming missiles, he decided there was no threat.

He had been trained that a U.S. first strike would be all-out involving hundreds of missiles at once.

His words: "You don't start a war with just 5 missiles."

 

The Russians have since parked a geostationary satellite up there to act as a reference for the other two to avoid the same problem happening again.

 

I remember this incident. I was in AIT at the time I heard this Russian guy saved the world.

Just one of many near-misses during the Cold war.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov


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