Ben McCarthy Retweeted Geoffrey Miller
Soviet Air Defence computers incorrectly interpreted sunlight reflecting off a cloud as a nuclear missile strike. Policy was to retaliate with immediate effect. There were multiple incidences like this. Another time it was a flock of geese, then it was a faulty computer chip.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1045017634884874240 …
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Geoffrey MillerVerified account @primalpoly
Everybody almost died in global thermonuclear war on Sept 26 1983. This lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces kept a false alarm from escalating into a Russian retaliatory attack that could have unleashed hell on Earth.
Kudos to @FLIxrisk for celebrating him. https://twitter.com/tegmark/status/1044950327332667392 …
1:03 AM - 27 Sep 2018
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