WORLD WAR THREE --- BY ERROR THROUGH COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY!

June 3rd, 1980 --- About 2:30 AM ---

Computers at the National Military Command Center, beneath the Pentagon, at the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (norad), deep within Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, and at Site R, the Pentagon’s alternate command post center hidden inside Raven Rock Mountain, Pennsylvania, issue an urgent warning ----

THE FRUCKING SOVIET UNION HAS LAUNCHED A NUCLEAR ATTACK AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

Those damn commies had recently invaded Afghanistan so tensions were the highest they had been since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Ballistic Missile Crews removed "The Keys" from their safes.  

Bomber plane pilots ran to their assigned planes.

Attack planes were launched to search the skies.

It was like a movie, the FAA was ready to pull all flights from the air, to order them to land wherever they could.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national-security adviser, was asleep in Washington DC, when the phone call came through.

"Them dirty commies have launched nukes at us!!!" someone screamed as he answered the phone. "Computer shows thousands on their way to kill us all in a beautiful but deadly fire balls, hotter than the mother fucking sun!!"

(Disclaimer -- Conversation recreated from a fictional account as giving by a mouse sitting in the corner on the night in question)

Brzezinski told his military aide, General William Odom, who was on the phone to get confirmation of the attack.

A retaliatory attack would need to be ordered and quickly.

Washington DC would soon be a burning ruin; a shit ball to its former shit ball status but on fire.

A real buzz kill.

Brzezinski did not wake up his wife; hoping that if the attack was true, she would die peacefully in her sleep, and also she was a real bear when awaken.

"No need to add more shit to the storm!"

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.

46 cents defective computer chip almost caused the end of the world.

This wasn't the first time an error had occurred.

A similar false alarm had occurred the previous year, when someone mistakenly inserted a training tape, featuring a highly realistic simulation of an all-out Soviet attack, into one of NORAD’s computers.

During the Cold War, false alarms were also triggered by the moon rising over Norway, the launch of a weather rocket from Norway, a solar storm, sunlight reflecting off high-altitude clouds, and a faulty A.T. & T. telephone switch in Black Forest, Colorado.

So basically, we've been on the "Eve of Destruction" on errors quite a few times; mostly unreported except through the fictionalization of events in movies.

Along with folks trying to flex their muscles in some leader orgasmic ritual, we are living in scary times; one false flick of a mouse or the ego of some world leader with a nuke, and goodbye Norma Jean and hello Fiery  end of the world as we know it.

So kids, if you're programming a virus to simulate a nuclear attack by a rogue nation, please don't, nations are on high tensions!!

They'll go off with one stroke!