[drzaiusapelord]

>Just before Brzezinski was about to call President Carter, the NORAD warning turned out to be a false alarm.

These stories are usually ignorant of what the actual procedures were and how very far any launch scenario was. There would be secondary detection confirmation and everyone was well aware of what a false positive was.

No one was just launching on one set of data, if they did, we wouldn't be here to discuss it.