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Old 09-27-2010, 07:23 AM   #720
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Originally Posted by Amnorix View Post

1983. At a time of extremely tense relations between the US and the USSR, Stanislav Petrov violates Soviet policies and saves the world when he fails to report to his superiors a detected US missile strike. Petrov correctly identifies a US nuclear missile strike to be a computer error. Had Petrov reported the strikes, it is possible that in accordance with their policies of the time, the USSR would have launched an all out nuclear "counterstrike". Coincidentally, the movie WarGames is released in 1983.

Wow, they kept this quiet.


If this info would have come out, the world would have broke into a frenzy.
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