"Mein Fuhrer: I Can Valk!"
Today is Friday, 26 September 2008.
On this date in 1983, a quarter century ago, Lt. Colonel Станислав Евграфович Петров (that’s Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov to you, Comrade) of the Soviet Air Defense Forces, correctly realized that a technical malfunction had falsely indicated an American nuclear missile attack, and did not notify his superiors that the USSR should begin a full-scale nuclear war.
[see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov]
This is not the only documented case of barely-averted nuclear holocaust. The USA/USE went there also (e.g., when a new radar mistook the rising Moon, fair Luna, for a Soviet ICBM attack).
All across this land, your land, my land, their land, in bunkers spanning this spinning globe, itching fingers are constantly, religiously, loyally, foolishly, sociopathically, poised above red buttons.
Sleep tight tonight.
SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE !
ANOTHER SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE !!
On this date in 1983, a quarter century ago, Lt. Colonel Станислав Евграфович Петров (that’s Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov to you, Comrade) of the Soviet Air Defense Forces, correctly realized that a technical malfunction had falsely indicated an American nuclear missile attack, and did not notify his superiors that the USSR should begin a full-scale nuclear war.
[see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov]
This is not the only documented case of barely-averted nuclear holocaust. The USA/USE went there also (e.g., when a new radar mistook the rising Moon, fair Luna, for a Soviet ICBM attack).
All across this land, your land, my land, their land, in bunkers spanning this spinning globe, itching fingers are constantly, religiously, loyally, foolishly, sociopathically, poised above red buttons.
Sleep tight tonight.
SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE !
ANOTHER SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE !!
posted by HH at 1:57 PM
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