Ten jet interceptors from three bases in the United States and Canada were scrambled, and missile bases went on “low‐level alert,” The New York Times reported. Investigations later discovered that a “war game” tape had been loaded into the Norad computer as part of a test. President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, got a call informing him that 2,200 missiles were heading toward the United States. His training and intuition told him a first strike by the United States would come in an overwhelming onslaught, not “only five missiles,” he told The Post. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe alert was said to have been canceled about 30 minutes later by a higher authority.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2018 03:24 UTC