Perhaps the closest was in 1995 when a US/Norwegian scientific rocket happened to enter the flight path an ICBM would take from US launchers to Moscow. The alert was sudden and fast-moving, and led to Yeltsin activating his launch codes and submarines placed on alert for imminent retaliation, the only time a nuclear state has been known to do so.
Not specifically that, but there’s a book by Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) called The End is Always Near and it’s fantastic. All the brushes with species ending/altering events throughout history
I think someone’s filled a book from all the brushes with armageddon during the cold war. This was far from a rare occurence.
Perhaps the closest was in 1995 when a US/Norwegian scientific rocket happened to enter the flight path an ICBM would take from US launchers to Moscow. The alert was sudden and fast-moving, and led to Yeltsin activating his launch codes and submarines placed on alert for imminent retaliation, the only time a nuclear state has been known to do so.
But, wait! There’s more!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls
I’d save that page for the morning.
Not specifically that, but there’s a book by Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) called The End is Always Near and it’s fantastic. All the brushes with species ending/altering events throughout history
The number er of times we’ve been itching to destroy ourselves, you’d swear someone else had to be intervening to keep us from doing it