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> not a single rogue general There was a rogue soviet lieutenant colonel though, and thank god for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_fal
by hypertele-Xii 4y ago
> not a single rogue general
There was a rogue soviet lieutenant colonel though, and thank god for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident#Incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
- dron57 4y agoHardly rogue. In his own words - his job was to supervise the radar system and make judgement calls. He judged the detection of a single "missile" to be a false positive sincea a NATO would have consisted of a massed first strike rather than a single bogey. Petrov simply did his job.
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- happyopossum 4y agoHow was he a rogue? He was doing his job and he did it well, and saved a lot of lives. That doesn’t make a rogue.
- hypertele-Xii 4y ago"the Soviet Union's strategy was an immediate and compulsory nuclear counter-attack against the United States (launch on warning), specified in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction." Immediate. Compulsory.
- nautilius 4y agoYeah, but there wasn't an attack.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y agoWhat’s not included is the confirmation that they are under attack.