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Most of you guys weren't around then and I was a little kid, but I remember everyone was ready to go to bomb shelters at a moments notice.
Military alert was raised to DEFCON 3 and instructions were given to be ready to launch nuclear ICBM's into the Soviet Union.
Twenty planes armed with nuclear bombs were also in the air ready to strike the USSR at exactly 7.00 p.m.
The next day, military alert was raised to DEFCON 2, the highest level ever in US history. The EAM notification, sent around the world, was purposefully left uncoded
so the Soviets would know just how serious the Americans were.
This was the closest we ever came to turning the entire planet into a nuclear wasteland.
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