The intruder who almost caused World War III

The United States and the Soviet Union, the largest economic, technological and military powers in the world in the 1970s, were in an arms race to build and have ready the largest number of nuclear weapons to point at each other, to annihilate each other in case of be attacked, that is, I aim all my bombs at you and I don't attack you, but if you attack me I attack you with everything and we destroy each other.

This confrontation has a name “mutual assured destruction” or Mad for its acronym in English and although it may seem incredible it was the security policy of both nations, for That war is called the Cold War because it did not have battles like a conventional war, only the threat of mutual destruction.

But many years before, in 1959, both the United States Since the Soviet Union was already targeting each other with intercontinental ballistic missiles, these are long-range missiles that can take off in the continental United States from a silo in the middle of nowhere and hit a target 6,000 km away in the territory. enemy and also the same from the side of the Soviet Union, but the United States brought PMG Jupiter medium-range missiles to Italy and Turkey, dangerously close to Soviet territory.

The bombs they carried had a destructive power of 1.4 megatons, the equivalent of 100 Hiroshima bombs each, nothing more. This put Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) within reach of these missiles and the Soviets became nervous.

The United States ended up provoking and strengthening the union between Cuba and the Soviet Union, and the latter proposed the installation of R12 and R14 medium-range ballistic missiles similar to those that the United States had in Italy and Turkey aimed at a Soviet target.

The United States U2 spy plane took photos of the installation of Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba on October 17, 1962 and everything went out of control, the president of the United States announced on television that they would create an air and naval blockade around La Island to force the Soviets to withdraw their missiles from Cuba and here the tension was reaching its maximum, now on Thursday, October 25, 1962, the paranoia created by the tension made the United States expect acts of sabotage in its air defense facilities, this as an action prior to a nuclear attack, the enemy tries to Disable your radars so that you do not notice when they launch missiles at you.

At midnight at the air defense facility in Duluth Minnesota, a guard shot a black figure who was trying to jump a security fence, this activated the sabotage alarm that automatically activated the alarms of other bases in the region, but At the Volk Field base in Wisconsin, a failure caused the horn that was used to deploy nuclear-armed F106a interceptors to sound instead of the Sabotage alarm. The pilots knew that there were no drills for these maneuvers and that a call to take off meant that a nuclear war had begun, but before the planes could take off the commander contacted the Duluth base, where the alarm had originated, and discovered that it was a mistake, so an officer took a vehicle across it on the runway. took off and put high beams on the planes to prevent them from taking off.

The intruder that jumped the fence at the Duluth air defense base was a bear, it was another of the incidents that could have led us to World War III and annihilation, that was pretty close.

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