[lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:26:08 EDT
Omar writes: "Let us now peddle just-so stories, Eric."
Nope. Let's trade in nonfictional accounts. The satellite launch that nearly
bounced the big one was Norwegian.
http://www.gsinstitute.org/archives/000042.shtml
. . . . former U.S. Senator Alan Cranston who currently heads the Global
Security Institute, "Fail Safe" is a dramatic story of how there could have
been,
and still could be, an accidental nuclear war. There have been more than 1000
false alarms leading to the mistaken assumption that one nuclear super power
had fired against the other.
At least three of these came dangerously close to triggering a nuclear
exchange between the two nuclear super powers, including in 1995 when Russia
mistook
a Norwegian weather satellite launch for a nuclear attack."
Aids woke President Boris Yeltsin in the middle of the night and alerted him
of an approaching U.S. Trident nuclear missile. For what is believed to be the
first time in history, the Russian President activated his "nuclear
briefcase" for a retaliatory attack against the West.
Just six minutes before the final impact of the missile, the Russians
switched on a special communications circuit that connected Kremlin
headquarters with
silo-based missiles, missile-carrying trains and submarines â?? the Russians
were, in effect, at "Battle Stations." Minutes before the launch of Russia's
nuclear arsenal, the alarm was determined to be false.
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