[SirLinksalot]

Sometimes, God works through the most obscure men. We almost never hear about people like these.

[BenLurkin]

There were other similar false alarm incidents during the cold war including some at NORAD.

It is the folks at NORAD who I would like to thank -- for doing their jobs defending America. Good work!

[z3n]

Why you alwasy have humans in the loop

[ClearCase_guy]

This is one reason Skynet would be a bad idea.

[Alberta's Child]

I remember reading about a similar incident in the 1980s involving a Norwegian weather balloon of some kind. The Norwegian government had notified the Soviet embassy in Oslo about it before it was launched, but the Soviets neglected to pass it up through their chain of command. The end result was that some senior Soviet military officer was left facing a dilemma when his tracking systems reported what they identified as a ballistic missile launch from a U.S. submarine in the Arctic Ocean.

If I remember correctly, what made the Norwegian incident so precarious is that it occurred soon after a number of Soviet military officers were sacked for failing to shoot down that German teenage idiot Matthew Rust when he landed his small plane in Red Square.

[Frank_Discussion]

"Who would order an attack with only five missiles? That big an idiot has not been born yet, not even in the U.S."

That's funny material! LOL!

[pabianice]

[bmwcyle]

Read this book

[indcons]

The source is suspect

[Brilliant]

He deserves a better deal than this. I guess Hollywood thinks the Runaway Bride's life is more interesting, though.

[DustyMoment]

Wow! If Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov isn't a new hero of Russia, he certainly is for Americans.

Thank you, Col. Petrov, and thank God for putting him in the right place at the right time.

[Graymatter]

After a story like that, I like a good smoke.

I'll bet a carton of these he turns out to be a Hungarian used car salesman.

[Ditter]

I seem to remember this story, it is not the first time it has been told.

[RightWhale]

We almost never hear about people like these

except on FR where the topic has been posted several times.

[Noumenon]

History often turns on the judgement of one individual. Never think that you can't make a difference.

[rawhide]

This guy deserves the 'Nobel Peace Prize'.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Muffley:

But, how is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically, and at the same time impossible to untrigger?

Strangelove:

Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the fear to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision making process which rules out human meddling, the doomsday machine is terrifying. It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0055.html

[USF]

God works in strange ways PING.

[shuckmaster]

If you read it in WorldNetDaily, it's got to be true! /s

[Ohioan from Florida]

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[Old Professer]

And we are supposed to believe this because...?