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Date: January 26, 2025 at 18:58:00
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: End of the world due to not getting the memo???? |
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I didn't know this, but now that I do, am sharing this
with you. I can't believe it was almost the end of the
world as we know it because someone didn't get the
memo!!!
On this date in 1995, Russia was mere moments away from
starting a nuclear war after it detected a missile
being launched from Norway. For the first time in
Russian history, the country's leaders activated their
nuclear suitcases in anticipation of what they believed
would be a Soviet counter-strike. After eight tense
minutes, it was determined that the missile was not an
impending attack against Russia. Later, it was revealed
that the missile was, in fact, a Norwegian scientific
craft and that Russia had been informed of the event
but that the information never made its way down to
those in charge of monitoring the skies over the
country.
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Date: January 27, 2025 at 08:10:20
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: End of the world due to not getting the memo???? |
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident |
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Here's the wiki on it...
Excerpt:
"The Norwegian rocket incident, also known as the Black
Brant scare, occurred on January 25, 1995, when a team of
Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant
XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andøya Rocket
Range off the northwestern coast of Norway. The rocket
carried scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis
over Svalbard, and flew on a high northbound trajectory,
which included an air corridor that stretches from
Minuteman III nuclear missile silos in North Dakota all
the way to Moscow, the capital city of Russia.[1] The
rocket eventually reached an altitude of 1,453 kilometers
(903 mi), resembling a US Navy submarine-launched Trident
missile. Fearing a high-altitude nuclear attack that
could blind Russian radar, Russian nuclear forces went on
high alert, and the "nuclear briefcase" (the Cheget) was
taken to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who then had to
decide whether to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike
against the United States.[1][2][3] Russian observers
determined that there was no nuclear attack and no
retaliation was ordered."
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