1995 Near-Nuclear Incident

The firing of a scientific rocket from a small Norwegian island nearly started a nuclear exchange in 1995.  Details are found in yesterday’s news story from then Boston Globe at:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/01/25/how-nuclear-near-miss-would-disaster-today/TG4nhiUzPyFtcV0QGybj6J/story.html

This scary incident has three parallels in past near-misses also chronicled on this blog, one posted November 30, 2013 regarding Vasili Arkhipov, another on December 1, 2013 regarding Stanislov Petrov and a third on June 12, 2014 regarding a near-nuclear detonation in North Carolina in 1961.