November 5, 1956 During the Suez crisis, Britain and France attacked Egypt in an attempt to regain control of Suez Canal . The Soviet government proposed to the United States to jointly stop the attack. Then, the United States obtained a series of intelligence: an apparently unidentified aircraft flew over the airspace of Turkish ; a Soviet fighter jet flew over the Syrian ; a British bomber crashed; and the Soviet warship had sent an attack signal to maneuver. The United States is worried that this series of events will trigger NATO 's nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. It was not until the end that people realized that all the events were coincidences or misjudgments that the hanging heart finally landed: the UFO over Turkey was a swan, the Soviet plane was escorting the Syrian president, the British bomber crashed mechanically, the Soviet fleet conducted routine exercises (but this time the action was too big)...
2. Accident at the Cotland Air Force Base
On May 22, 1957, a bomb somehow fell from a B-36 bomb bay, and the plane was transporting nuclear weapons from Texas to New Mexico . The bomb landed about 1,700 feet south of Cotland Air Force Base, exploded and formed a 12-foot-deep, 25-foot-wide crater. Fortunately, for safety during transportation, the nuclear bomb was stored in the bullet warehouse from conventional explosives during transportation, and a normal bomb was dropped. The only casualties in the accident were a nearby cow.
3. North Carolina B-52 Crashed
11 On January 24, 1961, a fuel leak occurred in the wing of an B-52 bomber carrying two Mk39 hydrogen bombs. The plane then exploded and dropped two hydrogen bombs ! Fortunately, the hydrogen bomb has a safety mechanism, which is replicated and exploded by mistake. One of the parachutes unfolded and then slowly landed, while the other almost exploded due to five of its six security mechanisms malfunctioning! If it explodes, most of North Carolina will be completely destroyed.
4. Bear incident at Volcker Air Force Base
1962 midnight on October 25, 1962, a figure climbed onto a fence near Volcker Air Force Base in Minnesota. An air force guard identified it as a Soviet special forces ready to destroy U.S. command facilities. After multiple shots, the alarm system malfunctioned and a sirens rang over the air base, causing two F-106A fighter squadrons equipped with 800 pounds of nuclear rocket to take off. Finally, I found that the black shadow turned out to be a black bear, and this wave of attack was stopped.
5. Cuban Missile Crisis Submarine Incident
11962 During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviet Union sent four submarines to patrol the waters near Cuba . The Americans did not know that these submarines carried nuclear torpedo equipped with Hiroshima equivalents, and the captains were authorized to launch these torpedo . At this time, the submarine lost contact with Moscow.
On October 27, U.S. fleet discovered and surrounded one of the submarines. The situation was critical and the captain decided to fire his nuclear torpedo at the American ship. However, Vasily Alshipov, the head of the submarine fleet, rejected the order. Arshipov is called "the person who saves the world".
This incident is one of the closest events in nuclear history to a nuclear war breaking out.
6. Palomares B-52 crashed
1 On January 17, 1966, an American B-52 aircraft was hit by the boom of the tanker and crashed immediately. 11 crew members of the two aircraft, five survived. Two nuclear bombs on the B-52 hit the ground near the village of Palomares and exploded, contaminating a square mile with radioactive plutonium; the other bomb did not explode in the riverbed; the last one fell into Mediterranean .
The incident appeared on the front page of "New York Times " in January 1966, and Spanish fishermen went to court to demand the right to salvage the sea bomb.Finally a settlement was reached outside court, and they were compensated about $20 million.
7. False US missile attacked
In the fall of 1983, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were tense as the Soviet Union shot down an aircraft departing from New York. On September 26, 1983, a Soviet satellite reported that five U.S. missiles were flying towards the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is preparing to launch a retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies, which could lead to a nuclear war that killed half of the population of both countries.
Officer Stanislav Petrov believes that if the United States wants to launch an attack, they will use far more than five missiles to attack, so they violated the relevant Soviet operation agreements and ignored the warning. He is right: the satellite misjudged the sun's reflection on the clouds as a missile attack. Stanislav Petrov was eventually considered one of the most lives saved in history, known as the "People Who Saved the World" (with Alshipov)
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