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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:47:21 +0800

"...the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United
States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm, and his decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[In RISKS-3.39, 18 Aug 1986, we had a "Nuclear false alarm" item,
contributed by Robert Stroud. That case triggered nuclear attack sirens
in Edinburgh. PGN]


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