7th April 2015, 5:55 AM
A Black Falcon Wrote:The most dangerous moment almost certainly has to be the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Read up about Able Archer 83:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet...m_incident
A situation actually occurred which should have triggered a Russian nuclear attack, but didn't because the guy on watch was smart enough to recognize that what was happening was most likely a computer glitch and not an American nuclear attack. If it had been someone with less imagination or an itchy nuclear trigger finger...well, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.