How Sun-Watchers Stopped World War III in 1967



As an intense solar storm interrupted radio and radar communications, scientists and military leaders scrambled to decipher the cause.

How Sun-Watchers Stopped World War III in 1967


On May 23, 1967, on-duty officers at the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) were huddled in an underground command center outside Omaha. They had less than 30 minutes to determine if a sudden bout of radio and radar interference was a natural event or Soviet subterfuge masking a nuclear attack.

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