Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Norwegian Rocket Incident of 1995" video.

There was, of course, the incident in the 80s when an image from a Russian satellite looked like an American ICBM had been launched. Fortunately the Russian officer viewing the image hesitated and then realised it was not a ICBM being launched. It was actually the Sun striking a cloud but looked like a missile launch. As it happened he was the only one on duty who had a civilian education before joining up. He said if it had been one of his colleges they would not have waited and would have informed their superior of the launch. The thing is the Russians were expecting an attack. Because of the heightened rhetoric of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the Russian leader Yuri Andropov was convinced the West was going to launch a preemptive attack on Russia. So if the had received the information about the supposed ICBM launched they would not have waited. So WW3 would have been caused by the Sun hitting a cloud. When Reagan finally heard about how close we came to total destruction he did have enough sense to dial back the rhetoric.
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coffin dodger This is true. Unfortunately the fact that he saved us from war did not stop him being fired. They did not like the idea of other people thinking for themselves. I suppose it could have been worse. Imagine what Stalin would have done to him.
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Choppington Otter He is an unsung hero for us all, unlike others. It was estimated that one third of the American population alone would have died if WW3 had broken out, yet some US generals thought that they would win and the casualties were a price worth paying. Now people like that should be fired. And yes I do know people in other countries would have thought the same, the USSR for one. I am not singling out America in particular, I am just using it as an example because that is one I know. Of course considering how much of the planet would have been devastated by the war, not to mention all of the radiation, and the possibility of the nuclear winter for at least ten years, any victory would be a very much a Pyrrhic victory. You start to feel those who wold have died in WW3 would have been the lucky one.
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