1 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953: The Korean War, a
war between two factions trying to control the
Korean Peninsula: a communist one supported by
China and the USSR, and a capitalist one, supported
by the UN and the United States. Many people
believed that it would escalate into full-scale war
between the three superpowers. CBS war
correspondent Bill Downs wrote in 1951 that, "To
my mind, the answer is: Yes, Korea is the beginning
of World War III. The brilliant landings at Inchon and
the cooperative efforts of the American armed
forces with the United Nations Allies have won us a
victory in Korea. But this is only the first battle in a
major international struggle which now is engulfing
the Far East and the entire world. He repeated
this belief on ABC Evening News while reporting on
the USS Pueblo incident in 1968.

2 15–28 October 1962: The Cuban missile crisis, a
confrontation on the stationing of Soviet nuclear
missiles in Cuba, is often considered as having been
the closest to a nuclear exchange, which could have
precipitated a Third World War. The crisis peaked on
27 October, when a U-2 was shot down over Cuba
and another almost intercepted over Siberia, after
Curtis LeMay (US Air Force Chief of Staff) had
neglected to enforce Presidential orders to suspend
all overflights, and a Soviet submarine nearly
launched a nuclear-tipped torpedo in response to
depth charges (with the launch being prevented by
an officer named Vasili Arkhipov).

6–25 October 1973: The Yom Kippur War, also
known as the Ramadan War, or October War, began
with Arab victories. Israel successfully
counterattacked. Tensions grew between the US
(which supported Israel) and the Soviet Union
(which sided with the Arab states). American and
Soviet naval forces came close to firing upon each
other. Admiral Murphy of the US reckoned the
chances of the Soviet squadron attempting a first
strike against his fleet at 40 percent. The Pentagon
moved Defcon status from 4 to 3. The
superpowers had been pushed to the brink of war.

3 26 September 1983: A false alarm occurred on the
Soviet nuclear early warning system, showing the
launch of American Minuteman ICBMs from bases
in the United States. A retaliatory attack was
prevented by Stanislav Petrov, an officer of the
Soviet Air Defence Forces, who realised the system
had simply malfunctioned (which was borne out by
later investigations.

3 25 January 1995: The Norwegian rocket incident
occurred when the radar signature of a Black Brant
XII research rocket being jointly launched by
Norwegian and US scientists from Andøya Rocket
Range was mistaken for a Trident SLBM launch by
the Russian Federation's Olenegorsk early warning
station. In response, President Boris Yeltsin was
summoned and the Cheget nuclear briefcase was
activated for the first and only time. However, the
high command was soon able to determine that the
rocket was not entering Russian airspace, and
promptly aborted plans for combat readiness and
retaliation. It was retrospectively determined that,
while the rocket scientists had informed thirty states
including Russia about the test launch, the
information had not reached Russian radar
technicians

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