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On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the Soviet nuclear early warning system Oko reported the launch of one intercontinental ballistic missile with four more missiles behind it, from the United States. These missile attack warnings were suspected to be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an engineer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces on duty ...
Feb 25, 2019 · The perceived ballistic missile threat broadcast all over Hawaii on 13 January 2018 was a textbook false alarm: the result of inadequate technical safeguards and a clumsy mistake made by somebody who simply did the wrong thing at work one day.
Jan 13, 2018 · Jan 13, 2018 6:14 PM. How Hawaii Could Have Sent a False Nuclear Alarm. And where was the federal government? Honolulu, Hawaii, the morning of January 13, 2018, when cell phones received...
Sep 26, 2013 · But duty officer Stanislav Petrov - whose job it was to register apparent enemy missile launches - decided not to report them to his superiors, and instead dismissed them as a false alarm....
Nov 6, 2001 · The Cuban missile crisis is the best-known example of narrowly avoiding nuclear war. However, there are at least four other less well-known incidents in which the superpowers geared up for...
Jan 14, 2018 · 14 January 2018. People were warned to take shelter. Residents and visitors in Hawaii have been recalling the shock of a false missile alarm, with many saying they thought they were going to...
Mar 16, 2020 · During the middle of the night on 6 June 1980, Zbigniew Brzezinski's military assistant Colonel William E. Odom listened in on the Pentagon conference call that concluded that the warning signs of incoming missiles had been a false alarm. Source: Library of Congress Manuscript Division, William E. Odom Papers, box 30.
