The Tape That Almost Launched a Nuclear War ☢️📼

1979. A training simulation nearly causes nuclear war.
A radar operator at NORAD accidentally loads a test scenario into the live U.S. defense system.
It looks like a full Soviet nuclear strike.
Bomber crews are scrambled. Missile teams prepare to fire.
Only one thing stops them—a second check.
It was just a tape.
And the world narrowly avoided disaster.
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