Computer Bug That Was 7 Minutes Away From Launching a Nuke
Published February 19, 2020
This video has 2.36M views and 45.6K likes, ranking #1,890,679 globally among tracked YouTube videos by view count.
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2,365,493
Likes
45,652
Comments
2,537
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People make mistakes, but accidentally launching a nuclear strike that would have destroyed the Earth would have been the biggest and last mistake anyone would have ever made. The US was in the midst of the Cold War with Russia, and a computer system for detecting Russian missiles was relied on to protect America, but …
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- February 19, 2020
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