06-25-2004, 11:41 PM
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Originally posted by John D Harris:
MagiK, I'd like to hear about those 5 times myself, I can think of only the Cubain Missles crisis, possibly the shooting down of Korean flight 007, Shooting down of the U2,and it seems like there where a couple of times some ships rammed each other.
Am I close? you know at our age the memory is the second thing that goes, I forgot what the first is. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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I listed them in my long post above. [img]smile.gif[/img] The U2 flight was actually not that tense an issue re: Nuclear exchanges, Diplomaticly it was sticky but to my knowledge there was no real war threat.
No the Computer Glitches and misunderstood missile launches were the closest we ever came...the two NORAD glitches WERE real Britch shitters ...there were some SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY worried folks during those.....the miscommunications about the missile launches were also very serious.
All through the 70's and early 80's there were dozens of incidents where US and Soviet Subs had close encounters, and Surface ships in pac and med would ram each other fairly frequently...but again that was kind of brushed aside as inconsequential by the top levels of government...the cost of doing business you might say.
[ 06-25-2004, 11:41 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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