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We are going to start this episode in the very early morning of October 3, 1979, when Jimmy Carter's

National Security Advisor, Zabignev, Brzynski, got a phone call from his military aid around 4 a.m.

I asked Josh Keating to tell me the story.

Brinski was told that night that 220 missiles had been fired from Soviet submarines off the coast of Oregon,

which meant that he had just a few minutes on his hands to decide whether to call up President Jimmy Carter

and wake him up to tell him that the U.S. was under nuclear attack.

Josh covers foreign policy and national security at Fox.

As the story goes, Brzynski decided not to wake his wife because he figured she'd be

better off dying in her sleep if the attack was real.

Just before Brzezinski called to wake up President Carter, his phone rang again.

His aide called back and said it had been a false alarm.

It was a defective computer chip cost less than a dollar in a communication system

that had set off a false alarm.

Then, about four years later, came another near miss, this time on the Soviet side.

This is the famous story of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, who his computer system

detected that the U.S. had launched missiles, and he had a few minutes to decide whether to

call up the chain of command to Moscow to inform

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