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Is this what you are referring to? http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-03/ff_nuclearwar?currentPage=all http://archive.wired.com/politics/sec

• yardie 12y ago
  This and a few others. Going through the wired archives you'll find many examples of nuclear false alarms and brinkmanship where the only thing stopping annihilation is an officer ignoring or delaying the order to launch [1][2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov