Did you know there was a nuclear war false alarm on this date in 1979?

2015-11-09T03:57:44-05:00

Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

Response by SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL made Nov 9 at 2015 4:46 AM

2015-11-09T04:46:52-05:00

SSgt Alex Robinson thanks for posting, very intriging post. I did not know that.

Response by CSM Michael J. Uhlig made Nov 9 at 2015 6:44 AM

2015-11-09T06:44:21-05:00

We were going through some troubled times in our country at this point. The U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun less than a week before this false alarm so we were on a heightened state of alert as it was. This event could have ended so much differently when you look at the totality of what we were going through at the time. Luckily cooler heads prevailed!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-hostage-crisis/

WGBH American Experience . Jimmy Carter | PBS

General Article: The Iranian Hostage Crisis