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Former US Airman Tells UN an Accidental Nuclear War Was Narrowly Avoided in 1962
At any given moment, the world is just a few minutes away from a nuclear catastrophe, missiles standing ready in silos around the world waiting for a short burst of computer signals to let them loose. It’s the highest stakes game there is—but even so, mistakes do happen.
John Bordne, a 73-year-old former missileer, claims he witnessed such a mistake during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis while working as a flight control specialist at a missile launch control centre in Okinawa, Japan, one of the US’s four bases in the region. His job was to keep the missiles prepped for launch at a moment’s notice. Today, Bordne told the UN about the incident via Skype at a meeting organized by the government of Chile and anti-nuclear groups Global Zeroand Mayors for Peace.
Bordne asserts that the US came shockingly close to starting a nuclear war by accident during a midnight shift on October 28, 1962. According to Bordne, the US nearly launched a nuclear strike against Russia when a launch order was mistakenly sent out for all 32 missiles in Okinawa, tacked on to the end of a weather report. All the officers’ launch codes matched up, but the threat level remained at Defcon 2. Missiles could only be launched at Defcon 1 …. http://motherboard.vice.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/11/former-us-airman-tells-un-accidental.html
