"Computer glitch?"
Is that a technical term?
This put me in mind of Ronald Reagan’s famous off the cuff remark about launching the nukes...
1979? Who was president then? Hmmmmm
Wasn’t that also the time that space aliens intervened to shut down both sides’ launch systems to save the human race?
Jimmy Carter almost pushed the button? I doubt it.
This place just got their first viewing of ‘War Games 1983’
The 1979 incident is not a secret. Hell, that’s been out there for years.
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Fortunately, Major “King” Kong woke up feeling under the weather that morning and so couldn’t take his bomber out.
You gotta wonder how many times that dump, the USSR, came close to doing stupid things like that. Valuwalk sounds like a generic name for CNN, like Yorktown is for Marsh foods here in Central Indianer.
I heard the Russians had a similar experience on their end. Some malfunction caused radar blips which could have been interpreted as a US launch, but some moderate level officer held off pending confirmation.
It’s disturbing. But, these days, I think whenever I see something like this in the news that it’s part of the incessant leftist drive to convince the US to self-disarm.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/norad-false-alarm-causes-uproar
Some secret.
It was news at the time.
What if, what if? The US came within minutes of properly responding to the radar imaging of the Japanese air fleet on its way to Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. A proper warning and hundreds of US planes could have met the Japanese assault. What if, what if...?
Setting the basis for the 2016 “Daisy Commercial” at Trump’s expense. I wondered when this was coming. I knew Trump would be a likely target. We’ll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Id_r6pNsus
There were, of course, two big boards, so one would be available when the other went down for maintenance or repair. The backup board was used for training exercises. Someone had put a training module into the wrong machine. Which of course made for an exciting couple of minutes.
The numbnuts also like to talk about how often "we almost launched the bombers." The whole point of bombers as part of the triad, of course, is that they could be launched and recalled. Ready bombers were routinely launched when Soviet subs ventured in too close to wherever they happened to be sitting at the moment. This was one of the Cold War games that was played, as subs would come in on the Atlantic, Gulf, or Pacific coasts just to make the bombers jump around. Fun and games.
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As for the subject of seconds away from a nuclear exchange, one assumes that this would be raised as a DefCon alert increase. I cannot find such an incident in 1979 and from the listed blurb it sounds like NORAD performed the normal validation and did not go any further. As for the author, he is obviously unbiased; In addition to the Atlantic Monthly, Schlosser's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Nation.
Site owned by a Soviet in New Jersey?