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It wouldn't take much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#False_alarm_from_the_Soviet_missile_early_warning_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able
by danjac 5y ago
It wouldn't take much:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#False_alarm_from_the_Soviet_missile_early_warning_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#False_alarm_fro...
" false alarms were caused by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds underneath the satellites' orbits. "
- jjk166 5y agoThe odds of erroneously detecting a missile launch and then a meteor exploding over a city at the exact time and place predicted by that fake missile's trajectory is astronomically small.