The Wrong Tape November 9, 1979. Cheyenne Mountain. NORAD screens lit up with incoming missiles. 2,200 Soviet warheads heading for America. Bombers were scrambled. Silos prepared. National Security Advisor Brzezinski was awakened. He was about to call the President. Then someone checked the satellites. The sky was empty. A training tape had been loaded by mistake.
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