Скачать или смотреть Three Minutes From Nuclear War: The 1979 NORAD Incident

On November 9, 1979, at 2:26 AM, every alarm inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain command center erupted. The screens showed over 200 Soviet nuclear missiles inbound—submarines launching off both coasts, ICBMs rising from Siberia. A coordinated first strike.

Bomber crews sprinted to B-52s carrying live nuclear weapons. Missile officers in underground silos inserted their launch keys. A ballistic missile submarine prepared to fire. The United States was seconds away from nuclear retaliation.

But there were no Soviet missiles. The "attack" was a training simulation,
a tape accidentally loaded into the live threat detection system.
For three minutes, the world balanced on the edge of nuclear war because of a clerical error.

This is the story of that night. Told through the eyes of the officers in the room, the bomber crews on the runway, and the missile teams underground. A night when the system designed to prevent World War III almost started it.