Six Near-Misses in Nuclear History
A nuclear history full of incidents and close calls with disasters, where the world has come near nuclear catastrophe dozens of times over the past decades without actually experiencing one. For example, the 1962 Soviet "B-59" submarine crisis, which was on the verge of deploying a nuclear torpedo; the false alarm in the Soviet Union in 1983 that nearly triggered a nuclear war; as well as a series of incidents involving the loss of control over nuclear weapons and their exposure to damage, such as the falling of hydrogen bombs and radioactive dust leaks. There have also been cases of false threats and mistaken images that led to extreme nuclear alertness. Despite these dangerous moments, nuclear weapons have not been used since the end of World War II.
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