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Dude111

05-12-2011 11:10 PM

Quote:

In the early dawn hours of November 9th, 1979, ...crews manning the underground missile silos along the American Great Plains received an urgent alert. Early warning satellites had detected that Soviet nuclear missiles were in flight, soon to rain apocalyptic fire and death upon the United States. This was not a drill (repeat, this was not a drill!).

Very scary!!

Sounds like the movie WARGAMES!!!!

In fact,i wonder if this incident gave them the idea for that movie??!!

BlueStreak

05-12-2011 11:20 PM

Happened more often than you may realize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

Dave

piece-itpete

05-13-2011 09:01 AM

I saw interviews with Navy captains back in the 50s, they believed they had launch authority!

It's a miracle there was no ww3.

Pete

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