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I’m sure the US military is smart enough to put their toys away before the balloon they’ve been watching for a week floats overhead.
by barsonme 4y ago
I’m sure the US military is smart enough to put their toys away before the balloon they’ve been watching for a week floats overhead.
- ben_w 4y agoHopefully. But my dad, who worked on (British) military IFF stuff, did have a story about an ICBM early warning system (I think American) that determined an attack was inbound because someone forgot about the Moon.
- jecel 4y agoSee the October 5 1960 entry in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls