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chopper2004 13th Dec 2020 01:42

Ramstein missile scare
 
Hmmm reading the end of this article , one readers comments makes a humorous reference to the 1983 Matthew Broderick thriller ‘War Games.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...TOryoVmlaEwopI

Any thoughts ?

cheers

Less Hair 13th Dec 2020 08:31

Didn't Russia test fire four missiles from a submerged sub recently?
PS: Okay as mentioned there.

NutLoose 13th Dec 2020 22:08

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov

Ever heard of him? no? We all should have, if it wasn’t for him we wouldn’t be here today, the man was possibly the saviour of us all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24280831



Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov

Is another that stopped his commanding officer launching a nuclear torpedo
during the Cuban missile strike and bringing the world to the brink of destruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-of-life-prize







ShyTorque 13th Dec 2020 22:25

I was based in West Germany at the time of the false Allied missile strike warning in Russia. We heard a rumour about that incident not long after it must have happened. I can recall exactly where I was at the time I heard it and I was posted back to U.K. a few weeks later.

He should be honoured by both East and West!

Less Hair 14th Dec 2020 18:46

A nice collection of false alarms here and there:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/missil...lsealarms.html

MightyGem 14th Dec 2020 20:31


I was based in West Germany at the time of the false Allied missile strike warning in Russia.
Was that the one that was part of Ex Able Archer?

Less Hair 14th Dec 2020 21:04

Good reading here:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/ab...-83-sourcebook


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