Throughout the cold war what's considered the closest the

>>3036535
Cuban Missile crisis.
Missile on Cuba, turkey, and Italy ready to shoot

That one incident with India and Pakistan where The USSR deployed nuclear submarines to stop American and British ships from helping Pakistan IIRC

Cuban Missile Crisis is obvious.
Able Archer is another one;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

They should just escalate the world into real nuclear war to prevent post-modernism and feminism as they are real cancers of society, not literal one if such thing is even caused by radiation (it doesn't).

>>3036535
that one time when only US president official visit to Beijing stopped USSR launching nuclear attack on China.

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>>3036605
Explain further

>>3036566
The germans made a really good tv show about that one
Deutschland 83

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>>3036535

There was an incident where a series of computer glitches caused a soviet missile warning station to read a wave of ICBM's coming in from the USA. The young Soviet officer in charge of the radar station noticed something.....off about the readings, so he ordered that they shouldn't be passed on. Tensions were very high in 1983, and he feared that if he passed on the data, command would be forced to launch an immediate retaliatory strike. His hunch, that the readings were the result of a computer error, turned out to be 100% correct, and his decision not to pass on the faulty report arguably prevented a nuclear exchange from occurring. His name was Stanislav Petrov, now known as the man who saved the world.

The Soviet command intensely grilled Petrov after the fact as to what his motivations were. Petrov justified his actions by saying that the missile detection system was very new and he did not trust it. Furthermore, the wave of incoming missiles that the machine was reporting appeared too small to be the product of an American strike. Ultimately, command agreed that Petrov had made the correct decision in labelling the attack a false alarm. His actions revealed a serious defect in the Soviet missile detection system which had caused the computer to read a series of false missile launches coming out of North Dakota.

Although Petrov was never really formally punished for his actions (because ultimately the higher-ups agreed that he had done the right thing) it still effectively ended his career as an officer because the Soviet leadership considered the entire incident to be an embarrassment. He was re-assigned to a less sensitive position and received no further promotions after that point.

Only much later in life did Petrov start to receive adequate praise for averting a probable a nuclear exchange. He is frequently nominated for (and wins) various humanitarian awards for his actions during the 1983 incident.

>>3037416
I heard this from a documentary aswell. Don't know if it really happened tho.

>>3037423
Different anon. Read it in a book as well. Whether or not it really, really happened, the accepted standpoint in media and academia is that it did happen. Pretty fucking incredible honestly. Can you imagine if he was wrong?

>>3037452
the fate of the world was on his hands holy shit. This is one of those moments when a single decision of a signle man could have changed the world drastically.

>>3037423

The nature of the error in the Soviet computer system that caused the system to detect false missile launches in North Dakota is somewhat interesting, in my opinion. It just so happened that there was intense cloud cover in North Dakota during the night, which the system read as possibly being exhaust from missile launches. At the same time, there happened to be a group of satellites over head. The system looked at the clouds, considered that they might be from the exhaust of a missile launch, then looked upwards and saw the satellites above, and made a conclusion that they could be recently launched ICBM's. At the same time, there was a solar anomaly that caused both the clouds and the satellites to appear much brighter than they normally would be. The computer measures all these factors, and concludes that ICBM launches have indeed occurred. Now further understand that once an ICBM launch has been reported, there is very little time to spend. The travel time for an ICBM between North Dakota and the USSR is approximately 30 minutes, so there is very little time to argue about whether or not to launch a retaliatory strike. In 1983, tensions were especially high, and the entire soviet military apparatus was primed for quick response.

To demonstrate the mind-frame of the Soviet military officials at the time, one only needs to look at the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. This incident occurred in the very same year, 1983, and it paints a picture of a force that was on edge, and prepared to take military action quickly without asking too many questions.

>>3037455
This man saved more human beings than any other politician or religious leader ever has. We should make a religion out of him

>>3037514
we really should let's think about it how are we gonna call it?

>>3037601
How Common Sense and Decency Saved the World

>>3037612
No we need a religion not a fact.

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>>3036535
Cuban Missile Crisis easily, most specifically on October 27, 1962 where the US dropped depth charges after spotting a Soviet launch submarine in international waters.

The crew of the sub, still under radio silence, believed that the war has already started as they were being attacked, and they voted on whether to launch the nuclear strike or not, which required a unanimous agreement.

Only Arkhipov, the second-in-command, voted against launching the strike and opted to wait for direct orders from Moscow whether the war actually started or not, and that single man avoided nuclear war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

>>3037514
>Stanislav Petrov

im working on a portrait right now

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>>3037612

temperance saved the world...

>>3037680
What sort of fucktard throws depth charges at a fully armed nuclear-equipped submarine in international waters during a military crisis?