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Jesus, what a decision to make. I'd never heard about this until today. Going on an all-out war bender, with that film about the guy who killed more than 240 Germans during WW2, then played himself in the film of his autobiography on at 12pm, this nuclear Megadeath thing, and possiby Battlefield 2 later (who am I kidding, of course I'll be online). Expect me at the nearest belltower tomorrow, rifle in hand and tie around my head.
Particularly of note was when the American air force put out a full alert and made ready its B52 bombers for a full scale nuclear assault on the USSR, only to find the alert was triggered by a glitch in a computer program. Very similar to the story in that link.
Still, props to Stan.
You're going to die, but youavert nuclear war anyway>
If I knew I was going to die, I'd probably let them start one.
That article mentions War Games.
What a great film that is.
"How do we beat it? I know, Tic Tac Toe"
One that I remember is when a Russian nuclear submarine and American nuclear submarine somehow managed to collide off the coast of the USA. The Russian submarine was badly damaged and surfaced and had it's nuclear missiles pointing directly at the coast looking like it was about to strike.
The American's were about to start a nuclear war against Russia when the Russian submarine crew went to where the missiles were launched from and manually moved them away to show that they weren't about to launch them and that the missile launch pads were damaged and couldn't be moved without help.
This prevented America starting a nuclear war and the Russian crews thanks for averting the destruction of mankind was a slow death from radiation poisoning.
"Ahueyet? I should have pressed the damn button!"
> Oooooh £1000 for saving the world.
And if you're good, a nice dacha in Siberia.
Just wow.