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Originally Posted by Weasel
Were you around in the 80s? I believe they say at one point we were 5 seconds from nuclear war.
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Probably a bit dramatic minutes rather than seconds, most known incidents the West was the culprit but 1983 was Russia's year.
The close one was Russia mistaking a military exercise for the real deal.
Friend of mine was in the signal core at the time in a mobile monitoring post. When they realised the Russians were as scared as them they contacted their counterparts directly in an effort to diffuse the situation, lot of unsanctioned chatter that day.
The other one in 1983 did not amount to much the Russians detected missile launches but who ever was in charge took a gamble & did not report it. Turned out to be a satellite glitch.