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edit: one of these heroes is Stanislav Petrov, idk who the other one is unfortunately

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    In at least one of these cases I think what happened is the computer showed only a single missile and the officer recognized that there wasn’t any case where the Americans would launch one missile. Doctrine said to retaliate but the guy was all "nah, this is a glitch or something, if it was the real thing there’d be hundreds or thousands of missiles, not one.

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      Yeah, it’s not “nothing ever happens” but “a single nuke from amerikkka is sussier than a red amogus”