Tumble_Drier
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RE: DOOMSDAY...Genuine concern or load of Hocum?
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RE: DOOMSDAY...Genuine concern or load of Hocum?
(13-07-2012 21:34 )Tumble_Drier Wrote: (13-07-2012 21:09 )dan g 27 Wrote: (13-07-2012 20:10 )Tumble_Drier Wrote: Absolutely bollocks, in my very humble opinion.
Most people don't realise we came closer to "Doomsday" on a couple of occasions in th8 80's than we are ever likely to in the future.
What happened in the 80s?
Twice in 1983 Russian Forces went on high alert.
The first occasion was when a faulty sensor in a Russian satellite misinterpreted the sun's reflection off a cloud as a single American ICBM launch. Then it "detected" another.....and another. After 5 launches, the system registered an all out First Strike.
The Colonel on duty at the time chose to ignore the warning....luckily, he was correct, but he was reprimanded for overriding the system and pensioned off, to save the Russians any embarrasment.
Just over a month later, NATO was running an exercise (a War Game, no troops etc ever left base) Called Able Archer 83.
The Russians were of course monitoring and began to get reports that key Personnel were at their posts and there was a simulated move through all alert status from DEFCON5 to DEFCON1. Russian Agents panicked and reported all this as fact, rather than a simulation!
Russian forces were again placed on full alert as they believed an attack was imminent....Luckily, the exercise was soon over and Soviet agents reported that NATO was "standing down", when in reality the threat had never existed outside of a Command Post war game.
I can remember in my young teen years sat in a pub with mates. A story was being reported on the Solidarity strikes in Poland-it then went around the pub that the Soviet Union had launched nuclear weapons on the west. One or two people actually left to go home...we just ordered another pint
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RE: Doomsday...Genuine concern or load of Hocum?
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