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Solar storm: How massive flare nearly caused WWIII

 
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Solar storm: How massive flare nearly caused WWIII
Solar storm: How massive flare nearly caused WWIII
Published time: 10 Aug, 2016 20:00

Believing its radars were being jammed, the US nearly launched a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in 1967. Disaster was averted when military weather forecasters explained that the “jamming” was actually a massive solar flare, a new report reveals.

US Air Force officers who helped prevent a nuclear holocaust revealed the details of the drama for the first time in a report made public Wednesday by the American Geophysical Union. The paper is slated for publication in the AGU journal Space Weather later this year.

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A couple days old, but I found it a refreshing reminder of how fucking close we have come many times to utter destruction because of glitches. Amazed nuclear war hasn't kicked off when you read the article. The fate of the world is just one mistake away.
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Re: Solar storm: How massive flare nearly caused WWIII
Wow! Thank you !
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Wow! Thank you !
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It's quite eye opening when you think about what lies in the balance. The fate of humanity has a guardian angel or something looking out for it.
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Re: Solar storm: How massive flare nearly caused WWIII
Legit. Should pin it. If true this belongs in the annuls of nuclear close calls with Able Archer '83, the Norwegian Rocket Launch and Cuban Missile Crisis.

Given the tensions today, wouldn't a Carrington Event type storm cause a world war? Within Chaos, There is Profit!





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