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gdy
on Oct 2, 2014
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The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well ...
Is this what you are referring to?
http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-03/ff...
yardie
on Oct 2, 2014
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This and a few others. Going through the wired archives you'll find many examples of nuclear false alarms and brinkmanship where the only thing stopping annihilation is an officer ignoring or delaying the order to launch [1][2].
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
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