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Well we almost went before... 1. Suez Crisis On November 5, 1956, during the Suez crisis, the North America Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) received warnings that seemed to indicate that a large-scale Soviet attack was under way: a Soviet fleet was moving from the Black Sea to a more aggressive posture in the Aegean, 100 Soviet MiGs were detected flying over Syria, a British bomber had just been shot down in Syria, and unidentified aircraft were in flight over Turkey, causing the Turkish air force to go on high alert. All signs pointed to the ominous, except that, not long after, each of the four warnings was found to have a completely innocent explanation. The Soviet fleet was conducting routine exercises, the MiGs were part of a normal escort – whose size had been exaggerated – for the president of Syria, the British bomber had made an emergency landing after mechanical problems, and last, but not least, the unidentified planes over Turkey? Well, they turned out to be a large flock of swans. 2. SAC-NORAD Communication Failure On November 24, 1961, all communication links between U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) and NORAD suddenly went dead, cutting off the SAC from three early warning radar stations in England, Greenland, and Alaska. The communication breakdown made no sense, though. After all, a widespread, total failure of all communication circuits was considered impossible, because the network included so many redundant systems that it should have been failsafe. The only alternative explanation was that a full-scale Soviet nuclear first strike had occurred. As a result, all SAC bases were put on alert, and B-52 bomber crews warmed up their engines and moved their planes onto runways, awaiting orders to counterattack the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons. Luckily, those orders were never given. It was discovered that the circuits were not in fact redundant because they all ran through one relay station in Colorado, where a single motor had overheated and caused the entire system to fail. 3. U2 Spy Plane Accidentally Violates Soviet Airspace U2 spy planes were high-altitude aircraft that took pictures of the Soviet Union with extremely powerful long-distance telephoto lenses. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, U2 pilots were ordered not to fly within 100 miles of the Soviet Union to avoid antagonizing the Soviets. However, on October 26, 1962, a U2 pilot flying over the North Pole made a series of navigational errors because the shifting lights of the aurora borealis prevented him from taking accurate readings with his sextant. As a result, he ended up flying over the Chukotski Peninsula in northern Siberia, causing the Soviets to order a number of MiG interceptors to shoot his plane down immediately. Instead of letting him be shot down, however, the United States responded quickly by sending out F-102A fighters armed with nuclear missiles to escort the U2 back to American airspace and prevent the MiGs from following it. Unbelievably, the tactic worked. Even more amazing: the decision whether to use their nuclear missiles was left to the American pilots, and could have easily resulted in a nuclear conflict. 4. When Camping, Make Sure to Hide Your Food and Your Nuclear Weapons On October 25, 1962, again during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a security guard at an air base in Duluth, Minnesota, saw a shadowy figure scaling one of the fences enclosing the base. He shot at the intruder and activated an intruder alarm, automatically setting off intruder alarms at neighboring bases. However, at the Volk Field air base in Wisconsin, the Klaxon loudspeaker had been wired incorrectly, and instead sounded an alarm ordering F-106A interceptors armed with nuclear missiles to take off. The pilots assumed that a full-scale nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union had begun, and the planes were about to take off when a car from the air traffic control tower raced down the tarmac and signaled the planes to stop. The intruder in Duluth had finally been identified: it was a bear. 5. A Terrifying Crash On January 21, 1968, fire broke out on a B-52 carrying a nuclear payload near Greenland, forcing the crew to bail out. The unmanned plane then crashed about seven miles from the early warning radar station in Greenland. The damage done could have been remarkable. The plane exploded as did the explosives surrounding the radioactive core of the nuclear weapons (which require conventional explosives to detonate). Given the state of nuclear weapons technology at the time, this type of unintentional detonation of conventional first-stage explosives could have theoretically triggered the second-stage fission reaction, resulting in a nuclear explosion. Luckily for the world, it didn’t. The resulting explosion would have not only severed regular communications between the early warning station and NORAD, it would have also triggered an emergency alarm based on radiation readings taken by sensors near the station. The only conclusion at NORAD headquarters, in this grisly hypothetical but very plausible scenario, would have been that the Soviets were launching a preemptive nuclear strike, and the United States would have responded in kind. 6. Comp Fear On November 9, 1979, four command centers for the U.S. nuclear arsenal received data on their radar screens indicating that the Soviet Union had launched a full-scale nuclear first strike on the United States. Over the next six minutes, planes were launched and nuclear missiles initialized for an immediate retaliatory strike. The president’s National Emergency Airborne Command Post – an armored jump jet with radiation shielding and advanced communications capabilities, meant to allow the president to remain in contact with the government and armed forces during a nuclear war – was also launched, although curiously without the president aboard. However, the alarm was canceled because no sensors or satellites detected an actual Soviet missile launch. The alarm had been caused by computer software used for training exercises depicting a nightmare scenario Soviet first strike. Senator Charles Percy, who happened to be at NORAD headquarters during this event, said the reaction was one of overwhelming panic and terror. Justifiably so. 7. Comp Fear, Part 2 Electronic displays at NORAD, the SAC, and the Pentagon included prominent, highly visible numeric counters showing the number of enemy nuclear missiles detected. They normally displayed four zeros – “0000” – indicating that no nuclear missiles had been launched. However, on June 3, 1980, at 2:25 in the morning, the counters started randomly substituting the number “2” for “0.” As a result, crews manning bombers carrying nuclear weapons were ordered to begin to warm up their engines, Minuteman missiles were initialized for launch, and airborne command posts were also launched. It was determined that this first even was a false alarm, but three days later it happened a second time – causing the entire emergency response procedure to start rolling once again. The problem was eventually traced back to a single faulty computer chip combined with faulty wiring.

Try visiting a gay bar in San Fransisco. If u can try to get into North Korea. You would be a real hit with your "We are the best, forget the rest" attitude

Another thing you could do. To get more interrested next time. Save all the turns, and make a movie out of it with Fraps. Have it recorded at ground level with intense fighting, and perhaps, have the students comment on the battle while the movie is running.

Burn Him!! Burn Him!

Someone has joined the Kettler´s group of conspiracies

Ehmm, do you mean your cd broke, got scratched? Cause a game cant just go broke, you computer can do that though

I use Firefox, and it dosnt have ActiveX, but the CM chat works fine. If you prefer IE, just be carefull, cause ActiveX is the cause of many secrurity problems with IE /Jev PS: In firefox ActiveX is and extension u can download, In IE, its embedded.

New Google thingy

If you are interrested you can have a gmail invite from me and then use this program to get the pbem file. Or you could share the account so that you can just click and drag the file back and forth between you and your opponent /Jev

Thank you Kuni. Hope to go there myself sometime.

And who are you again :confused: :confused:

You can find out your hardware with this program (SiSoft Sandra 2004 Service Pack 2 Benchmarking utility) /Jev

Try Firefox's extension "bookmark sybcronizer" It uploads/download our bookmarks to a ftp server every time you close or start firefox. Works perfectly for me

Gee kids, havent you outgrown this yet? And today I found out that Mr.Peng has dogs....and a heart "Shudders" /Jev

Ive got several. Do your have an email that can handle files this big or messenger? Ive got 66.77 52.16 44.03 41.09 40.41 30.82 28.32 All for Xp though /Jev

Ive got several. Do your have an email that can handle files this big or messenger? Ive got 66.77 52.16 44.03 41.09 40.41 30.82 28.32 All for Xp though /Jev

Can you be at bit more specific?

I can only agree with what Doresh said. Rambo has been warned before by a mod for his behavior, so this isnt excatly a first offence, he already got his second chance. Jev

Go away spammer, its a fraud and so are you

I thought the germans had the advantage because of the "Gott mit uns" beltbuckle... Perhaps JJR has been outkast.

So....its ok for "some" to have that behavior but not for the GF people. Go clean out in your on backyard first "@Sir Jersey --- Think about it, what do you expect to find in a General Forum on a wargaming website? Nothing but a bunch of Internet Campers who wish they were goosestepping, attacking farmers with tanks, & beating up bagelshop owners. In reality, they are a bunch of unemployed Canadians, living in their mother's house & posting on the sister's computer. Most of them were in the military for a couple years max (see unemployeed), & they got out claiming some disability to get a freebie check from the government."

Well I give you that. You sure are quick as god is, running away when you cant retort in a discussion. Troll

Dont go medieval??? you are as closeminded as a medieval peasant.

I thought Pride was one of the 7 sins??

Who cares?