"President Jimmy Carter’s
national-security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was asleep in
Washington, D.C., when the phone rang. His military aide, General
William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty
missiles launched from Soviet submarines were heading toward the United
States. Brzezinski told Odom to get confirmation of the attack. A
retaliatory strike would have to be ordered quickly; Washington might be
destroyed within minutes. Odom called back and offered a correction:
twenty-two hundred Soviet missiles had been launched.
Brzezinski decided not to wake up his wife, preferring that she die in her sleep. As he prepared to call Carter and recommend an American counterattack, the phone rang for a third time. Odom apologized—it was a false alarm. An investigation later found that a defective computer chip in a communications device at NORAD headquarters had generated the erroneous warning. The chip cost forty-six cents."
From, "Command and Control"-Eric Schlosser
THINK ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NOW WITH THE MORONS SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND TRY NOT TO CRY.
Brzezinski decided not to wake up his wife, preferring that she die in her sleep. As he prepared to call Carter and recommend an American counterattack, the phone rang for a third time. Odom apologized—it was a false alarm. An investigation later found that a defective computer chip in a communications device at NORAD headquarters had generated the erroneous warning. The chip cost forty-six cents."
From, "Command and Control"-Eric Schlosser
THINK ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NOW WITH THE MORONS SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND TRY NOT TO CRY.
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