Did the USA missile sites in Okinawa receive erroneous orders to launch their nuclear missiles during the cold war?
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- If true, this is another narrowly avoided nuclear war incident similar to those involving Stanislav Petrov and Vasily Arkhipov.
- (And it would be the only such case where the USA was responsible for the order rather than Russia.)
- But this account of things is contested, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scentists appears to have quietly deleted their original article on the subject.
- Resolves once enough information is declassified or otherwise comes to light for us to know with high confidence whether the described incident occurred.
- (This can still resolve YES if some details of Bordne's account were wrong, such as the exact date or people involved.)
