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On June 3, 1980, the Strategic Air Command was alerted that the Soviet Union was attacking the US.
Ironically, three years to the day before “WarGames” opened nationwide, this unsettling nuclear false alarm happened at NORAD:
Today in 1980, at 2:26am EDT, warning displays at the Strategic Air Command suddenly indicated that a Soviet SLBM attack on the United States was underway, first showing 2 and then, 18 seconds later, 200 inbound missiles. SAC ordered all alert air crews to start their engines.
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