6 November 2017 UPDATE
When discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis in 2002, Robert McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense at the time, stated, "We came very close" to nuclear war, "closer than we knew at the time."[14] Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., an advisor for the John F. Kennedy administration and a renowned historian, continued this thought by stating "This was not only the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. It was the most dangerous moment in human history."[15] EXCERPTED WIKEPEDIA BELOW
Wednesday, 11 October 2017 REPUBLICATION EDIT / 16 August 2012, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment editorial board expresses our deep and abiding gratitude to Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov the "[g]uy who saved the world". The United States government unsurprisingly has found no reason officially to recognize the man identified by the former head of the National Security Archive in 2002 as the "guy who saved the world" likely because he served in the Soviet military in an episode exposing the apparent perilous idiocy the United States Navy exhibited during the Cuban Missile Crisis dropping live signaling depth charges on a submerged Soviet nuclear-armed submarine in a still largely unknown incident alluded to by former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as bringing us all to the brink of the end of the world in "the most dangerous moment in human history."
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov who on 27 October 1962 with no great fanfare distinguished himself as the "guy who saved the world" against all odds and still stands as a stark warning that as long as human means exist to end all life on earth in a matter of minutes that absolutely unacceptable risk including by human mishap or design is made even exponentially worse when that power rests with the wrong person(s) to trigger such an event either through unintentional instigation of unfolding irreversible circumstances and events and/or lack of reasoned sound judgment and/or unfit temperament which under such immense pressure due to for example a "fluid sense of reality" is unable to process accurately actual circumstances and/or conditions with none able nor empowered to stop them who even in a state of total delusion alone may commence nuclear annihilation.
Lest persons seek to reassure themselves that any such circumstance as faced Vasili Arkhipov on that day in 1962 could not come about more than once in all of human history however long that may be it did in fact more recently come to light with the publication in 1998 of the memoir of the retired commander of Soviet missile defense that a mere two decades after the 1962 Ahkhipov incident that on 26 September 1983 44-year old Lieutenant Colonel Stalnislav Petrov in the Soviet Air Defense Forces "averted Armaggedon" at the critical moment on duty in a key decision position of a secret command center outside Moscow that monitored its early-warning satellites over the United States stood in shock as alarms went off and computer systems warned that five American Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched from an American base with just twenty-five minutes to detonation being only three weeks after President Ronald Reagan had rejected calls for freezing the nuclear arms race calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" with Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov obsessed with fears of an American attack.
Colonel Petrov with a phone in one hand and an intercom in the other stood with maps and screens flashing trying to absorb streams of incoming information for five minutes with as many as two hundred people watching him even as the computer alert went from "launch" to "missile strike" with the computer system assessing the reliability of its information at the "highest level". He decided although it was at best a "50-50 guess" based on his intuition and given the relatively small number of missiles reported and the lack of radar detection of the missiles as well as his distrust of the early warning computer system that had been rushed into service that he would go with his "gut" and report that there had been a system malfunction. "We are wiser than computers Colonel Petrov years later in a 2010 interview told German magazine Der Spiegel. "We created them." Although first praised for his calm Colonel Petrov later after an investigation because he did not record everything as it occurred in his logbook despite recounting that both his hands were occupied holding a phone and an intercom was reprimanded. Interested readers can go to the second link below where it is reported along with other further information that Colonel Petrov died earlier this year at the age of 77 .
Since this second known incident in a span of just two decades tensions and nuclear threat proximity in addition to proliferation have doubtless tightened and response time shortened even if one might argue that more modern computers and systems make for more safety. Who knows maybe even artificial intelligence though fiercely debated will be tasked misguidedly somehow to "improve" nuclear safety even though today's U.S. silo missile computer systems intentionally remain legacy systems running on original floppy disks so as not to be attached to nor vulnerable in any way to the internet and its vagaries.
If assessments of greater safety are incorrect given increased tensions with shorter response time, reliance on things other than measured human assessment and the U.S. Constitution made exponentially less functional in its war power checks and balances being short-circuited strongly in favor of the President given what are deemed technical necessities in the nuclear age then although we here certainly are no statistical probability scholars it may be that even if long discredited as simplistic miscalculation that human nature "gut" nevertheless still may tell us if these two incidents both occurred in a twenty year span to 1983 then we may be just about fifteen years overdue for the next such incident. But that would require that we be naive enough to trust that ours and other modern States and their "defense" industry donor/owners have felt any moral compunction to be uncharacteristically honest enough as to inform us each time we have been unknowingly so close to nuclear annihilation.
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/post-abc-poll-voters-favor-democrats-over-republicans-in-2018-house-midterms-by-widest-margin-in-years/2017/11/05/b3b2f620-bf4d-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.0cd8f83aef6f Oct. 29-Nov. 1 WaPo/ABC poll random national sample 884 voters error margin +/- 4 points
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/17/this-chart-should-really-worry-republicans-about-2018/?utm_term=.e6cd193d9dc4 CNN And RealClearPolitics Compendium High-Quality 17 October 2017 Polls
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/29/gop-tax-plan-would-provide-major-gains-for-richest-1-percent-and-uneven-benefits-for-the-middle-class-report-says/?utm_term=.ead3aeedfd34 GOP D/Owners Payoff
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/fact-check-will-the-wealthy-get-a-tax-cut-under-president-trumps-plan/2017/09/28/0fb84098-a4ae-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_video.html?utm_term=.bc3c9842a3bd Video 1:41
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/us/politics/trump-north-korea-kim.html?mcubz=1 Trump War Risk GOP Silent
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/us/politics/republican-donors-obamacare-repeal.html?mcubz=1 GOP donors
o http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/joe-once-again-gop-trying-to-pass-terrible-bill-1050627652002 4:47
o http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/sen-cassidy-says-bill-stands-up-to-jimmy-kimmel-test-1050717251556
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov "Guy who saved the world" (Not Donald Trump)
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/world/europe/stanislav-petrov-nuclear-war-dead.html Averted Armaggedon
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/us-un-north-korea-sanctions.html Trump seeks UN ok stop NK ships
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-trump-lower-the-nuclear-bar/2017/09/06/f90bbc2e-926c-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.ce3202aa4c70 George F. Will on Trump his 62,984,825 voters nuclear war
o http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear/trump-says-u-s-not-putting-up-with-north-koreas-actions-idUSKCN1BD0VW?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/history-shows-us-how-calamitous-the-north-korea-crisis-could-become/2017/09/05/a7263d38-9282-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.32ce13e766b7
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-north-koreas-nuclear-test-very-hostile-and-dangerous-scolds-south-korea/2017/09/03/a1429980-90a1-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html?utm_term=.da39db932120
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/world/asia/north-korea-tremor-possible-6th-nuclear-test.html
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jfk-rose-up-to-the-nuclear-challenge-can-trump/2017/08/09/23345e40-7d21-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.730a6440c7c8
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When discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis in 2002, Robert McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense at the time, stated, "We came very close" to nuclear war, "closer than we knew at the time."[14] Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., an advisor for the John F. Kennedy administration and a renowned historian, continued this thought by stating "This was not only the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. It was the most dangerous moment in human history."[15] EXCERPTED WIKEPEDIA BELOW
Wednesday, 11 October 2017 REPUBLICATION EDIT / 16 August 2012, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment editorial board expresses our deep and abiding gratitude to Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov the "[g]uy who saved the world". The United States government unsurprisingly has found no reason officially to recognize the man identified by the former head of the National Security Archive in 2002 as the "guy who saved the world" likely because he served in the Soviet military in an episode exposing the apparent perilous idiocy the United States Navy exhibited during the Cuban Missile Crisis dropping live signaling depth charges on a submerged Soviet nuclear-armed submarine in a still largely unknown incident alluded to by former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as bringing us all to the brink of the end of the world in "the most dangerous moment in human history."
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov who on 27 October 1962 with no great fanfare distinguished himself as the "guy who saved the world" against all odds and still stands as a stark warning that as long as human means exist to end all life on earth in a matter of minutes that absolutely unacceptable risk including by human mishap or design is made even exponentially worse when that power rests with the wrong person(s) to trigger such an event either through unintentional instigation of unfolding irreversible circumstances and events and/or lack of reasoned sound judgment and/or unfit temperament which under such immense pressure due to for example a "fluid sense of reality" is unable to process accurately actual circumstances and/or conditions with none able nor empowered to stop them who even in a state of total delusion alone may commence nuclear annihilation.
Lest persons seek to reassure themselves that any such circumstance as faced Vasili Arkhipov on that day in 1962 could not come about more than once in all of human history however long that may be it did in fact more recently come to light with the publication in 1998 of the memoir of the retired commander of Soviet missile defense that a mere two decades after the 1962 Ahkhipov incident that on 26 September 1983 44-year old Lieutenant Colonel Stalnislav Petrov in the Soviet Air Defense Forces "averted Armaggedon" at the critical moment on duty in a key decision position of a secret command center outside Moscow that monitored its early-warning satellites over the United States stood in shock as alarms went off and computer systems warned that five American Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched from an American base with just twenty-five minutes to detonation being only three weeks after President Ronald Reagan had rejected calls for freezing the nuclear arms race calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" with Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov obsessed with fears of an American attack.
Colonel Petrov with a phone in one hand and an intercom in the other stood with maps and screens flashing trying to absorb streams of incoming information for five minutes with as many as two hundred people watching him even as the computer alert went from "launch" to "missile strike" with the computer system assessing the reliability of its information at the "highest level". He decided although it was at best a "50-50 guess" based on his intuition and given the relatively small number of missiles reported and the lack of radar detection of the missiles as well as his distrust of the early warning computer system that had been rushed into service that he would go with his "gut" and report that there had been a system malfunction. "We are wiser than computers Colonel Petrov years later in a 2010 interview told German magazine Der Spiegel. "We created them." Although first praised for his calm Colonel Petrov later after an investigation because he did not record everything as it occurred in his logbook despite recounting that both his hands were occupied holding a phone and an intercom was reprimanded. Interested readers can go to the second link below where it is reported along with other further information that Colonel Petrov died earlier this year at the age of 77 .
Since this second known incident in a span of just two decades tensions and nuclear threat proximity in addition to proliferation have doubtless tightened and response time shortened even if one might argue that more modern computers and systems make for more safety. Who knows maybe even artificial intelligence though fiercely debated will be tasked misguidedly somehow to "improve" nuclear safety even though today's U.S. silo missile computer systems intentionally remain legacy systems running on original floppy disks so as not to be attached to nor vulnerable in any way to the internet and its vagaries.
If assessments of greater safety are incorrect given increased tensions with shorter response time, reliance on things other than measured human assessment and the U.S. Constitution made exponentially less functional in its war power checks and balances being short-circuited strongly in favor of the President given what are deemed technical necessities in the nuclear age then although we here certainly are no statistical probability scholars it may be that even if long discredited as simplistic miscalculation that human nature "gut" nevertheless still may tell us if these two incidents both occurred in a twenty year span to 1983 then we may be just about fifteen years overdue for the next such incident. But that would require that we be naive enough to trust that ours and other modern States and their "defense" industry donor/owners have felt any moral compunction to be uncharacteristically honest enough as to inform us each time we have been unknowingly so close to nuclear annihilation.
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/post-abc-poll-voters-favor-democrats-over-republicans-in-2018-house-midterms-by-widest-margin-in-years/2017/11/05/b3b2f620-bf4d-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.0cd8f83aef6f Oct. 29-Nov. 1 WaPo/ABC poll random national sample 884 voters error margin +/- 4 points
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/17/this-chart-should-really-worry-republicans-about-2018/?utm_term=.e6cd193d9dc4 CNN And RealClearPolitics Compendium High-Quality 17 October 2017 Polls
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/29/gop-tax-plan-would-provide-major-gains-for-richest-1-percent-and-uneven-benefits-for-the-middle-class-report-says/?utm_term=.ead3aeedfd34 GOP D/Owners Payoff
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/fact-check-will-the-wealthy-get-a-tax-cut-under-president-trumps-plan/2017/09/28/0fb84098-a4ae-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_video.html?utm_term=.bc3c9842a3bd Video 1:41
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/us/politics/trump-north-korea-kim.html?mcubz=1 Trump War Risk GOP Silent
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/us/politics/republican-donors-obamacare-repeal.html?mcubz=1 GOP donors
o http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/joe-once-again-gop-trying-to-pass-terrible-bill-1050627652002 4:47
o http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/sen-cassidy-says-bill-stands-up-to-jimmy-kimmel-test-1050717251556
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov "Guy who saved the world" (Not Donald Trump)
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/world/europe/stanislav-petrov-nuclear-war-dead.html Averted Armaggedon
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/us-un-north-korea-sanctions.html Trump seeks UN ok stop NK ships
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-trump-lower-the-nuclear-bar/2017/09/06/f90bbc2e-926c-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.ce3202aa4c70 George F. Will on Trump his 62,984,825 voters nuclear war
o http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear/trump-says-u-s-not-putting-up-with-north-koreas-actions-idUSKCN1BD0VW?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/history-shows-us-how-calamitous-the-north-korea-crisis-could-become/2017/09/05/a7263d38-9282-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.32ce13e766b7
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-north-koreas-nuclear-test-very-hostile-and-dangerous-scolds-south-korea/2017/09/03/a1429980-90a1-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html?utm_term=.da39db932120
o https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/world/asia/north-korea-tremor-possible-6th-nuclear-test.html
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jfk-rose-up-to-the-nuclear-challenge-can-trump/2017/08/09/23345e40-7d21-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.730a6440c7c8
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