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 |
Didn't Russia test fire four missiles from a submerged sub recently?
PS: Okay as mentioned there. |
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 |
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! |
A nice collection of false alarms here and there:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/missil...lsealarms.html |
I was based in West Germany at the time of the false Allied missile strike warning in Russia. |
Good reading here:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/ab...-83-sourcebook |
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