The world barely avoided nuclear war when Russian radar misunderstands Norwegian science rockets as US missiles.

In 1991, the Cold War ended due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat of global nuclear wars decreased significantly. However, on January 25, 1995, when a Russian officer mistakenly mistakenly destroyed the Norwegian rocket sent for Aurora’s research, the threat came to the front again.

Although not as famous as the Cuba crisis in 1962, the Norwegian rocket case is considered one of the most approaching nuclear war in the world.

Early in the morning of January 25, the Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Blunt XII 4 -stage measurement rocket from the Norwegian Norwegian launching area off the Norwegian northwest coast. The purpose is to study the Aurora of the Svarbar Islands, the Norwegian Islands of the Arctic Sea.

Prior to high altitude science experiments, they had notified dozens of countries, including Russia, but the information did not reach Russian radar engineers.

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Just four years after the end of the Cold War, the tension between the former Soviet Union and the United States was still high. Therefore, it is not a nuclear attack from the US submarine when Russian officers at the Orenegor Scrader base detected high -speed transfer objects depicting high -facing high orbitals in the Balentz seafood near the north border of Russia. I was worried. After all, it resembled the speed and flight pattern to a missile. The altitude reached 903 miles, and it was separated into several sections during the flight, just as the warhead was separated from the trident missile fired from the submarine.

Russia’s trick was to identify, evaluate, and retaliate within 10 minutes. Already, most of the time was spending on tracking the “missile” tracking.

As a result, Russian submarine commander was placed on alert and ordered to prepare for nuclear weapons. Russia’s President Boris Ellizin was notified and was handed over the Russian nuclear briefcase, Chegget, which is usually kept near nuclear weapons leaders. This preserves the launch code of a missile weapon in a country that can be used to order nuclear attacks. To this day, this is the only case that has been known that the nuclear briefcase has been activated in response to the possibility of the attack.

In consultation with the Supreme Advisors, President Elyzin concluded that the rocket was far from Russian airspace and no threat to Russia.

24 minutes after the launch, the rocket fell on the sea near Spitzbergen, the only settlement island in the Subarbar Islands. The whole case ended as if it had begun.

It was a miserable misinformation, which could cause a wide range of casualties. The incident was almost inconspicuous in history, but it led to re -evaluation and redemption of notifications and disclosure protocols in the United States and Russia.

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