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by gdy 4278 days ago
Is this what you are referring to? http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-03/ff...
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yardie 4278 days ago
This and a few others. Going through the wired archives you'll find many examples of nuclear false alarms and brinkmanship where the only thing stopping annihilation is an officer ignoring or delaying the order to launch [1][2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

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