We fired warning shots at them, they shot down one of our U2s. It’s the only time in the Cold War we actually exchanged fire, thus the closest we ever came to nuclear war. You can quibble about how close we actually were, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was the closest we came.
Being a student of Bible prophecy, I may have had some kind of edge over the low info ‘American,’ but there is really no excuse for fear, ever.
It’s all under his power, and he has told us what we need to know about how things will unfold. He has promised that we will not be subject to the rath, and I believe him.
Close is a personal judgment, so I suppose we were close and we were not close.