I am surprised the article didn't even mention the close call the world had on Sept 26, 1983 when a Soviet system false alarm showed a surprise US attack. Their

I am surprised the article didn't even mention the close call the world had on Sept 26, 1983 when a Soviet system false alarm showed a surprise US attack. Their commander at the time (Petrov?) refused to accept that it was real, otherwise WW3 might have started (and maybe ended too) on that day. I learned about it years later when I saw a documentary on it. I realized that I was in Brussels Belgium on that day and would likely have been vaporized in an attack.