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minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoThere was a couple times a Russian was supposed to “push the button” and didn’t. And probably a lot more that aren’t common knowledge. Sometimes they thought it was a bug, sometimes they thought just Russia being obliterated was better than the whole world.
minus-squareEvilHaitianEatingYourCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoSoviet Union* Poland, Ukraine and Baltic States would be obliterated too
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoNah, if anything I probably over estimated. The incidents I’ve heard about was all false reports of a single nuke coming to Russia. And the operator who’s procedures required them to launch a counter strike just didn’t do it. No country is dumb enough to start nuclear Armageddon with a single nuke. It’s kind of an “all or nothing” thing, so a single nuke is likely a glitch.
There was a couple times a Russian was supposed to “push the button” and didn’t. And probably a lot more that aren’t common knowledge.
Sometimes they thought it was a bug, sometimes they thought just Russia being obliterated was better than the whole world.
Soviet Union*
Poland, Ukraine and Baltic States would be obliterated too
Nah, if anything I probably over estimated.
The incidents I’ve heard about was all false reports of a single nuke coming to Russia.
And the operator who’s procedures required them to launch a counter strike just didn’t do it.
No country is dumb enough to start nuclear Armageddon with a single nuke. It’s kind of an “all or nothing” thing, so a single nuke is likely a glitch.