Thank God for Cool Heads

[Dave G]

Something I did not know.
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/805/1/23/2008/The_Man_Who_Saved_the_World_by_Doing_Nothing

[LostSheep]

Awesome story, Dave!

:thumb:

[Dave G]

Man...that was one providential guy.

[LostSheep]

God worked in that man that night.

[Dave G]

agreed.

[rogue06]

A cool head mixed with common sense. As he realized a nuclear attack would hardly have been limited to a mere 5 missiles. Thank God his instincts were good.

[Dave G]

It's a wonder this is not common knowledge....it ought to be a cautionary tale imo.

[Soyeong]

Good thing the error didn't make it look like more than five missiles launched.

[Dave G]

:bb:

[rogue06]

Makes you wonder how many other false alarms and close calls there has been. IIRC during the Cuban Missile Crisis our systems incorrectly detected incoming missiles from the Soviet Union.

[Nicholas]

Makes you wonder how many other false alarms and close calls there has been. IIRC during the Cuban Missile Crisis our systems incorrectly detected incoming missiles from the Soviet Union.

I think there have been a few of those, though imagine what might have happened if something like the Tunguska event happened during the Cold War, something that in the early years could easily have been mistaken for a nuclear detonation.

[Paintbucket]

Wow.

[Lazarus]

The interesting thing for me is that the man was a scientist and had been trained to analyze data. He wasn't "a man of faith" at all, at least not in the system he represented or in the tools employed by that system. In some ways this story is a cautionary tale for all of us who have faith, but never doubt.