Annie Jacobsen

The Secretary General said last year or something, we are one misunderstanding of

One miscommunication away from nuclear annihilation.

He's not kidding.

So his name was Petrov and he was and it was in 1983.

So what's even more remarkable about him is this was at a time of, you know.

Absolute animosity, enmity between the two nations.

It was a really precarious time in the world.

And Petrov was in an early warning radar system outside of Moscow that reads data of possible incoming nuclear missiles.

And he saw what the radar screen, the radar scope was reading as five ICBMs coming from Wyoming, five.

He knew that we would send 1,000 missiles if we were going to launch.

And so he questioned the data.

Which is just so remarkable in its own conception when you think about that.

He questioned it and he didn't send it up the chain of command as a missile attack.

Well, I get into this in the book, which is terrifying.

So let me back up for a second of how good our technology is.

So we have a system in space, a satellite system called SIBRS, Space Base Infrared Satellite System.

It's like the Paul Revere of the 21st century.

It is parked over our enemies that have nuclear weapons.

And it can see and detect a nuclear launch of an ICBM in a fraction of a second, Joe.

Confirmed fact.