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They knew there early launch radar was unreliable as they found out in The 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident and so was of little if any use to them.

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  • 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
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  • They knew there early launch radar was unreliable as they found out in The 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident and so was of little if any use to them.
  • On September 26, 1983, the nuclear early warning system of the Soviet Union twice reported the launch of American Minuteman ICBMs from bases in the United States. These missile attack warnings were correctly identified as a false alarm by Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. This decision is seen as having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies, which would have likely resulted in nuclear war and the potential deaths of millions of people. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had malfunctioned.
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  • March 2011
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  • They knew there early launch radar was unreliable as they found out in The 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident and so was of little if any use to them.
  • On September 26, 1983, the nuclear early warning system of the Soviet Union twice reported the launch of American Minuteman ICBMs from bases in the United States. These missile attack warnings were correctly identified as a false alarm by Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. This decision is seen as having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies, which would have likely resulted in nuclear war and the potential deaths of millions of people. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had malfunctioned.
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