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The Bunker

from Able Archer 1983 by Max Nova

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On the night of September 26, 1983, the Soviet orbital missile early warning system (SPRN), reported a single intercontinental ballistic missile launch from the territory of the United States, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, who was on duty during the incident, correctly dismissed the warning as a computer error when ground early warning radars did not detect any launches. Part of his reasoning was that the system was new and known to have malfunctioned previously; also, a full-scale nuclear attack from the United States would involve thousands of simultaneous launches, not a single missile. This occurred a number of 5 times in all of 30 minutes.

It was subsequently determined that the false alarm had been created by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds above North Dakota and the Molniya orbits of the satellites, an error later corrected by cross-referencing a geostationary satellite.

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Popov, The Shadows secret agent, has manipulated the early warning systems to produce false alarms thus causing the operators to generate a retaliatory strike against the United States but, luckily for the human race, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov did not trust the early warnings as he believed the strike would be much larger than one missile at a time.

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from Able Archer 1983, released December 31, 2020

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Max Nova Florence, Alabama

Creating sounds from the soul Max can turn dark to light, sadness to pure joy, misery to pleasure. Join Max on his journeys through time and space, learn some real histories (with a twist) and some futures yet to be and meet some old and new heroes and villains. ... more

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