On the evening of February 27th, Kortunov, the Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, told the Chinese media "China Newsweek" that Russia's actions are actually directly related to the increasing "response to the situation in Ukraine" measures taken by NATO countries. This can be seen as a new Cuban missile crisis, and to some extent, the current situation is even more dangerous than the Cuban missile crisis. There is no doubt that human civilization reached a critical moment in 1962.This year Khrushchev and his team were preparing to deploy medium range missiles and dozens of nuclear bombs in Cuba in order to fight back against the U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in Italy and Türkiye, but the U.S. reconnaissance aircraft discovered the Soviet Union's move. Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw its nuclear weapons, but the Soviet Union stated that the plan would proceed as scheduled. If the United States wanted to stop it, the Soviet Union would resolutely and fiercely retaliate! Soon, the US military assembled its naval and air forces to surround and blockade Cuba, while the Soviet Union also dispatched four submarines carrying nuclear bombs to Cuba.

On October 27th, the Soviet 641 class diesel electric submarine B-59 was tracked by the US Randolph anti submarine carrier and its escort destroyer, and the US destroyer also dropped extremely low power training depth charges to deter it. However, the captain and political commissar of the B-59 saw it as a signal for the US military to start attacking, and had no contact with headquarters, so they prepared to launch nuclear torpedoes at the US fleet on the water, which were as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb of that year! Once launched, a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union is bound to break out.

Fortunately, Soviet squadron commander Arshipov was on board the B-59 submarine. After the argument, he suppressed the anger of the captain and political commissar, stating that the launch could not be carried out without approval from headquarters. Shortly after, B-59 ran out of battery and could only float upwards, but the US military saw it as a sign of surrender. But many years later, when the US military learned of this situation, they even broke out in a cold sweat. It should be noted that just a few hours before the confrontation, the Soviet Union had shot down a US reconnaissance plane in Cuba, and the tense atmosphere was not difficult to imagine. This is already the second time that Arshipov has avoided a nuclear war. Prior to this, in 1961, the K-19 nuclear submarine he commanded had a reactor accident near the NATO base in Greenland, and the cooling system failed. The reactor could melt down at any time, causing the three nuclear bombs it carried to detonate and affect the NATO base. This could easily lead the United States to mistakenly believe that a nuclear war had broken out and prompt the Soviet Union to drop nuclear bombs at each other. Fortunately, officers such as Arshipov quickly organized the suicide squad to enter the reactor without defense and control the temperature.

In 1979, a disaster almost struck again. At that time, the United States developed a data processing system composed of computer intelligent systems, which could respond to rapid warnings during a nuclear war. Therefore, the United States deployed three 6080 computers specifically for this purpose. Three computers need to backup each other and form parallel connections with the US missile warning network at any time, displaying any suspicious signals on the command screens of various command centers on the US mainland. At the same time, these computers also need to issue warnings and counterattack orders to the North American Aerospace Defense Command at any time after the outbreak of nuclear war.

However, the system was limited by electronic technology at that time and had many technical vulnerabilities. However, due to the high cost of its development process, the improvement funds also faced difficulties, which laid a huge hidden danger. Due to the high failure rate, the senior management of the US military directly questioned the project leader, and the system could only be thoroughly investigated. Initially, it only used a backup computer for fault detection to determine vulnerabilities, but after the detection was completed, the technicians did not cut off the information transmission line between the computer and the warning system!

▲Back then, the United States specifically purchased Honeywell's 6080 computer for the Natingshan base

On the early morning of November 9th of that year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command saw hundreds of dots representing Soviet ballistic missiles on the display screen, which meant that the US mainland would suffer a devastating attack in half an hour! Soon, various units of the US military entered a high level of readiness, and even nuclear submarines and strategic bombers began to prepare for counterattacks. Even the President's doomsday command plane was urgently launched. At this point, with just one instruction from the president, the US nuclear bombs will be launched in a concentrated salvo towards other countries such as the Soviet Union and China!However, the so-called large amount of Soviet intercontinental missile attack information was caused by computer simulation program errors. Originally, due to the backup computer of the 427M system at the Xiayan Mountain base still being tested, the other two computers had crashed. According to the data terminal program of the base, the last computer that was still working normally automatically took on all the computing work. At that time, the important link was to test and simulate the intensive attack of Soviet missiles, but the technical personnel did not stop it in time, resulting in information leakage to the air defense command.

After figuring out what was going on, the senior US military quickly issued an emergency order to stop all attacks. Although the shadow of the war has temporarily dissipated, the US domestic defense department has also been greatly embarrassed, and some media even bluntly stated that the computer warning system, which has cost a huge amount of money for many years, is a useless white elephant project. Brezhnev bluntly stated that the foolishness and recklessness of the United States have placed lives around the world on the brink of destruction, and demanded that the United States take responsibility for this matter.However, the United States responded that this was a minor issue brought about by high technology, which did not mean that the United States would launch a nuclear bomb first. Obviously, this response was difficult to satisfy the Soviet Union. But the US military's computers once again failed after 7 months: on May 28, 1980, the missile data calculator of the North American Aerospace Defense Command malfunctioned, showing that 200 Soviet missiles were flying towards North America. Due to previous lessons, the US military has been very cautious and focused on troubleshooting this time.

However, a month later, the North American Aerospace Defense Command issued another warning, and they saw 2200 intercontinental missiles flying towards the United States from the display screen connected to the computer data cable! The senior management of the US military has once again ordered all strategic counterattack units to enter a level one alert state, while dispatching technical maintenance teams for repairs. Original: A tiny chip was damaged by overheating, causing serious calculation errors in the system. The real-time monitoring data showed that the number of enemy missiles increased from 0 in peacetime to 2200 in an instant!

Source: Military of Strong Countries