Talk:1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident

message: The very first (crucial) link is broken. Here it is:   , 
:cite web
:| title = 24 years on - The man who saved millions of lives
:| publisher = The Malta Star
:| url = http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msrv/msfullMagart.asp?an=15214
:| accessdate = 2008-03-22
I've replaced it with citation-needed tag. 75.173.80.195 (talk) 02:35, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crucial broken link 

message: Wikipedia readers interested in the censorship of this article should examine the diffs at each deletion of text in the article's History page. No doubt many of the deletions may be considered justified. Others, if they can be supported from the citations quoted and linked should be returned— with citations or in the form of direct quotations— to the article. For Wikipedia policy on censorship, see Wikipedia:Censorship.--Wetman (talk) 16:33, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Such a geveral accusation isn't really useful. Specific problem diffs might help, along with an explanation of exactly what is being "censored" here. Do you actually mean that a certain POV is being maintained by certain editors/users? - BilCat (talk) 17:06, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Caveat lector'': a heavily-censored article 

message: The reference for the background section is broken. Please update accordinglyWhizkid 0000 (talk) 14:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background reference link is broken 

message: > This decision most likely resulted in preventing an accidental 
 > retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western allies.
I don't think we should say "most likely" here. See below.
How about "possibly" or "...may have prevented..."
I myself subjectively consider the probability of a nuclear Russian "response"
smaller than 10% if Petrov had not been commander.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsgs2 (talk • contribs) 2010-04-25T04:27
Looks good to me - changed to "may have". Still, credit where credit is due. - 2/0 (cont.) 07:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:   most likely ? 

message: I was curious why the mans photo was deleted. --UnicornTapestry (talk) 04:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo? 

message: Starts with saying one missile then quotes five missiles. Which is correct?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.204.190.89 (talk) 03:51, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless I'm mistaken, the first warning had one missile and the second an additional four.  Thus leading to the  total of five from the quote. 67.42.38.107 (talk) 13:19, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incident Paragraph 

message: Reference 7 is to a piece by David Hoffman from 1999 stating that 'radars ... cannot see beyond the horizon'. This is in conflict with the Duga radar article which states such a system (Duga 3) was in place in USSR in the mid 70s and lasting to the late 80s. Maybe these radars were not available to Petrov and his team at the time, but if so, this should be specified in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.232.129.63 (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged the claim that The Soviet Union's land radar was incapable of detecting missiles beyond the horizon. as dubious for this reason. 2A00:23C3:70A:4100:1902:53D8:F98D:EB5A (talk) 17:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did the Sovjet Union have over-the-horizon radar? 

message: I was a short wave radio enthusiast at the time. The day before was calm but the next evening the entire world was up in arms. Every national short wave station was dedicated to the threat of nuclear war. The entire view point was that the US system accidentally sent attack warnings to the USSR. Apparently, the US sent not just one or two but dozens of warnings over several hours and could not shut down the US system to stop the false warnings. The USSR begged for world influence to halt the warnings. The world wide uproar last seven or eight days and then stopped with no more reports, discussions, or talks but only silence about the events. About six months later, the American news reported that Reagan made a snide comment about Russian cowards. Shortly after that a report came out that there had been an American activation of nuclear defense forces about the time of the false warnings. Very oddly not one American, family, friend, co-worker, or American news media anywhere had heard of a the false alarm yet the short wave radio signals where crazy insane with wild speculation and fear of pending doom. The incident should be called the US false alarm and not the Soviet false alarm. Calif.DonTracy (talk) 01:15, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propaganda and manufactured info