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Infographics: Season 2020

2020x107 Computer Bug That Was 7 Minutes Away From Launching a Nuke

  • 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 10m
  • United States
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 one problem, it wasn't human proof. In today's insane video we're looking at the time when a critical human error almost obliterated the entire world. Watch my SCP Explained - Story & Animation channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8JfkMtNAp44vmzdtnL4wow
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