Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Why Russia Can NEVER Use a Nuclear Weapon" video.
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Paul, you were doing great, and then you screwed up towards the end.
A Soviet Lt Col. DID stop ICBMs from firing off due to a bad electronic indication that FOUR USAF ICBMs were inbound. He saved the world, and ruined his career. He actually has video covering this floating around. The incident was only revealed after the end of the Cold War / AKA WWIII. No Nobel for HIM! But Arafat gets one. Sheesh.
A Soviet Senior Captain countermanded a launch of an atomic torpedo during the Cuban Crisis (1962) By doing so, he violated doctrine, and the general orders coming from Moscow. And this is on the record, as alluded to by your video, here.
A German agent, in the pay of Moscow, during 1984 IIRC, stopped a general atomic war by exposing the Reagan administration's war game as being just a war game. (!) The Kremlin was flatly convinced that the war game, per usual Soviet doctrine of lies, was nothing less than Barbarossa 2.0. At that time, the Soviets had their stuff even spooled up, pilots at the 'hot stand' awaiting the 'Go' to fly to West Germany with nukes. ( Short range missiles, too. ) The snap response of the Pershing II -- remember the hubub about it? -- all turned on the Soviet fear that NATO had a mirror response atomic missile to their own stuff.
(The Soviets inspired the Pershing II. Suddenly, Moscow realized that more nukes can easily blow-back upon their creators. No-one thought of them that way before. Eventually entire categories of nukes were 'retired.')
Thinking hard about things, Gorby decided that such missiles are just TOO much at a time of crisis. THAT'S what caused the beginning of the wind down.
Is it not ironic that the Cold War began to end in 1984 -- and in the minds of the Bolsheviks?
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