Posted on Aug 11, 2020
The nuclear mistakes that nearly caused World War Three
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From invading animals to a faulty computer chip worth less than a dollar, the alarmingly long list of close calls shows just how easily nuclear war could happen by mistake.
The nuclear mistakes that nearly caused World War Three
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I was on SAC alert when the NORAD computer mishap occurred. When I decoded the Emergency Action Message (EAM) as a Positive Control Officer on a B-52, it decoded to "Actual" instead of the usual "Exercise". We started engines, taxied, but never launched. It was a scary time for the entire crew. Besides the normal checklist items, the crew was silent the entire time.
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Way back in the day during a weekend drill was perusing a listing of US Army training supplies/materials and there was a nuclear bomb simulator! Asked the tech at USAR Center what were the odds of being able to order one (less than zero for a TC unit!)
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Spent plenty of quality time @ Sixth Army/Presidio of San Francisco but never saw a demo like this! Scroll to 13:50 in video. My guesstimate = they were somewhere around here on the map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UxelTaptS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UxelTaptS0
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