Posted on 09/17/2017 4:00:31 PM PDT by McGruff
We came a lot closer to nuclear war with Russia in 1969 when K-129 Soviet ballistic sub launched a warhead toward Pearl Harbor” but blew up and sank their sub...which we recovered unknown to the Russians.
The evidence is quite compelling...
The book “Red Star Rouge” tells the story...
Indeed. In 2017, what will a NORK attack look like? Where will it be aimed? What will our response look like? How will China and Russia react? Things are a LOT murkier today. The sensible and logical conclusion Petrov reached in 1983 won't be possible today with rogue states.
I worked in a place that was the equivalent of the Russian system, and it was the duty officer. Always comes down to one man in the end.
Only with the American system, the red button shut it off...
Should have asked em if passing a brick hurt ?
True story.
It is hard to think that our own American leaders (civilian and military) at times have been worthless and our saviors were actually on the enemy side of things. I suppose the Soviets were also lucky because our finger could also get rather touchy on the “button” and our leaders a tad paranoid. This is why the deal with North Korea is much worse than being reported. What if they actually launch and hit land? What happens if the Norks launch and China goes to Taiwan? How do we predict what China and Russia will do if we have a nuclear response let alone a conventional one?
The video attached to the story:
The small group I was with and the Russians I met the one time I was there in 1991, the height of Glasnost and Perestroika, all felt exactly that. Relief that we’d survived and astonishment looking back that we’d come so close to the abyss. We’d talk about how no other nations on the planet had ever held such power, or could understand the feelings of doom we shared, both Americans and Russians, and were brought up with. The Soviet system was as evil and malicious as any that’s existed, and Putin is no angel, but I actually liked the Russians I met then and I’ve known since. They are people with a number of fine qualities, a resurgence of devout yet long buried Christian belief most recently on display.
It was later revealed that what the Soviet satellites took for missiles launch was sunlight reflected from clouds. Petrov's action, however, received no praise, and he was scolded for not filling in a service journal.Wow, what an incompetent boob, eh? ;^) He used his head, and probably some other heads he never met were used for target practice for their failures.
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