Historical Nuclear Close Calls

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>>32930637
>implying glassing Cairo and Damascus would've been a bad thing.

>>32930658
I'm not implying it would be. :^

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>May 23rd, 1967
>NORAD BMEWS radar stations in Greenland and the northern US go dark
>Military interprets this as indication of a Soviet nuclear strike and begins making preparations for retaliation
>Just a few days earlier, on May 18th, NOAA's Solar Forecasting Center put out a prediction for a major series of solar flares to occur anytime within the next 36 hours, with a coronal mass ejection to be expected to come close to Earth, if not hit us.
>SFC scientists were able to confirm that it was, in fact, a CME that knocked out the BMEWS
>Missiles and bombers were within hours of launching
>Mfw the sun almost started a nuclear war

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Read Command and Control, it covers all the scary shit that happened with nukes during the Cold War. It's a great book in general actually.

>>32930658
>implying glassing some of the most liberal and least religious locations within several hundred miles fits your crusader fantasy
At least nuke Mecca and Medina or something

>>32931513
Spooky shit, my man.

>>32931732
I'll look into it. Thanks, Anon.

I recall one where
>perimeter alarm goes off
>security checks
>shadowy figure fuckin' with the fence
>Security triggers the intruder alarm
>intruder alarm crosswired to the NUCLEAR PANIC alarm because >contractors
>fighter begins takeoff within minutes to go fuck up Moscow or whatever
>is only stopped by an officer sprinting onto the runway
>intruder was a fucking retarded bear
>a bear almost caused WWIII

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>be Vasili Arkhipov
>on soviet nuclear submarine during cuban crisis
> US Navy on your tail
>Cannot contact moscow for multiple day
>Everyone on board thinks war broke out
>Refuse to launch anything
>Basically save the world
based
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

>>32930637
if we ever have a nuclear war, I am 100% confident it will be either isreal or switzerland
and I'm not even sure the swiss have nukes

>>32930658
heretic*
not infidel

>>32930637
Source on that? I get to hear about this all the time, but it always seems to end up as just some kind of a conspiracy derived out of the "Samson Option" thought experiment.

>>32932276
"According to a former senior CIA official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, Dayan sought an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Golda Meir and secured her authorization to arm 13 intermediate-range Jericho missiles with nuclear warheads. Eight F-4 Phantom fighter aircraft were also to be given nuclear arms, former senior U.S. officials said"

http://www.upi.com/Yom-Kippur-Israels-1973-nuclear-alert/64941032228992/

IIRC the Israelis intentionally leaked or made it apparent to the US that they were preparing the nukes so that Washington knew they weren't fucking around.

>>32930637
Not really close but during 9/11 a nuclear training exercise meant led to this exchange.
As soon as we landed, Mark Rosenker [director of the White House Military Office] and I went off the back stairs. There’s this guy who looks like General Buck Turgidson from Dr. Strangelove, big guy, all decked out in a bomber jacket. He was straight out of central casting. We said, “What do you need?” He said, “See those planes? Every one is loaded with nukes—tell me where you want ’em.” We look over and there are just rows of B-52s, wingtip to wingtip.

>>32932336
Why didn't we glass AFG?

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>>32930637
>nuclear war would have started with Israel going "fuck it" on the already losing Arabs during the Tom Kippur war

>>32931513
The sun is billions of nuclear wars every second, it just wants us to stop slacking off and start trying.

One of the most important people in the history of this timeline is the guy that didn't report a possible nuclear attack because he was unsure. It turned out to be geese or some shit.

>>32932409
If you read the article in >>32932289, you'll see the first, and most dangerous alert, was when Israel was losing ground. I'd imagine the probability of the Israelis glassing the Egyptians and Syrians when they'd already BTFO'd the would be pretty low.

>>32932202

It'll just be Israel.

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>>32932424
well shit then, I was hoping they were thinking of just glassing for good measure. but it does make sense they thought of going nuclear when they were losing, though a steep decision

>>32932202
Switzerland stopped it's nuclear program decades ago

>>32932188
was going to post this. Also checked.

>>32932409
Nah, the Jew's were stalemating with the kebabs during yom kipper, which means strategicly they were losing.

Impressive, but not a complete BTFO the six day war was.

They needed a tech advantage, and the us was still butthurt about the USS liberty and trying to calm down a room of nignogs barfighting. The Arabs had both a tech and numbers advantage, so they knew they would win if they just ground down the Jew's.

So the kikes basically said "fine, don't help us. But shits about to get real nuclear real fast". They know that the US knows that nukes between two proxies going at it means the USSR will give nukes to the loser, Jew's get nuked which means that it could esculate to Europe, then the ussr, then the US getting all Einstein on each other.

So the US stepped up, and gave them state of the art....everything. losing the tech advantage, the Arabs predictably got btfo, because da juice actually knows how to fight.

>>32931732
/thread

Read it on /k/ recommendation, well worth it.
Now I want the soviet version.

>>32931732
Are you using a blanket or a furry onepiece?

>>32931732

This

Also that edition has the best looking cover

>>32932202
>Swiss STARTING nuke war
No.
Switzerland is 'bunkers: the country', and doesn't care what anyone else does as long as they stay alive.

>>32932516
Its probably a snuggy.

>>32930658
>glassing anyone during the Cold War
>not bad
You would see a nuclear race with every medium size country getting nukes and/or picking the USSR or the USA.

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>>32932188
This, there cannot be a closer call.

>Later that same day, what the White House later called "Black Saturday," the U.S. Navy dropped a series of "signaling depth charges" (practice depth charges the size of hand grenades) on a Soviet submarine (B-59) at the blockade line, unaware that it was armed with a nuclear-tipped torpedo with orders that allowed it to be used if the submarine was "hulled" (a hole in the hull from depth charges or surface fire). The decision to launch these required agreement from all three officers on board, but one of them, Vasili Arkhipov, objected and so the launch was narrowly averted.

Absolutely fucking terrifying, watch the Fog of War.

>>32932516
>>32933475
Sorry to disappoint you anons, but it was just a regular fleece blanket.

>>32932188

It's always a Soviet that has the brass balls to avoid nukes flying everywhere, such as with Able Archer 83.

>>32932454
>>32932409
We also loaned our best advisors and helped them massively with our SIGINT capabilities.

We wont ever admit this though.

>>32933388
FALLOUT: NEW GENEVA when?

>>32930658
>glassing damascus
syria dindu nuffin

>>32932344
To hit the Saudi-sponsored Egyptians that dropped your towers?

>>32930637
the most recent episode of Hardcore History deals with basically exactly this:
http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

>>32930658
>implying we wouldn't lose some of the greatest historical art ever created by glassing Cairo

>>32933388
>Grab SKS/ go innawoods as foreign policy doctrine

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>>32933661
>Vasili Arkhipo
>no closer call

Who is Stanislav Petrov?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

>be 1983
>Petrov is officer on duty at early warning system for ICBMs
>shitty system detects 5 missiles heading toward Moscow
>their strategy is to immediately send a FUCKLOAD of missiles back at the US
>Petrov basicallys says "if the US was gonna fuckin nuke us they'd send everything they've got" and ignores it

turns out it was caused by sunlight

>see filename

>>32933661
>Fog of War
Great movie. It becomes clear in the film that MacNamera had no idea what he was doing and way in over his head as Secretary of Defense.

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>>32935407
>It becomes clear in the film that MacNamera had no idea what he was doing and way in over his head as Secretary of Defense.
children conflating entertainment (propaganda) with actual history is why we can't have nice things. also why socialism is winning over liberty.

>>32930658
Damascus has more history than your whole country combined.
Fucking idiot

>>32935594
I don't even know what you're trying to say. MacNamera did an objectively bad job in the Johnson administration. U.S. strategy in Viet Nam was a complete joke.

I can't tell if this is bait or you're just a Trumpkin that didn't learn his history.