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9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA

9th November 2020
Tagged as: America, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Missile, NORAD, Nuclear, Soviet Union, United States, USA, USSR

When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.

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