Accidental Nuclear War: a Timeline of Close Calls
Future Of Life Institute members on the close calls they think were scariest:
- Cuban missile crisis
- Richard Nixon’s depression
- the incident of the bear triggering a nuclear alarm
- a tie between the Arkhipov and Petrov incidents
- the Yeltsin incident
- the Petrov incident
- Lost Contact with 50 Missiles
Also featuring a video from The Union of Concerned Scientists that explains just how easily it would be for an accidental nuclear war to be launched.