Editing World War III (section)

=== Soviet radar malfunction: 26 September 1983 ===
{{Main|1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident}}

A false alarm occurred on the [[Oko|Soviet nuclear early warning system]], showing the launch of American [[LGM-30 Minuteman]] [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s from bases in the United States. A retaliatory attack was prevented by [[Stanislav Petrov]], a [[Soviet Air Defence Forces]] officer, who realised the system had simply malfunctioned (which was borne out by later investigations).<ref name="Hoffman-1999">{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/coldwar/shatter021099b.htm | title=I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut | first=David | last=Hoffman | newspaper=Washington Post | date=10 February 1999 | access-date=18 September 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130234943/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/coldwar/shatter021099b.htm | archive-date=30 November 2011 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Shane-2003">{{cite web|title=Cold War's Riskiest Moment |publisher=Baltimore Sun, 31 August 2003 (article reprinted as The Nuclear War That Almost Happened in 1983) |url=http://hnn.us/articles/1709.html#bombs9-5-03 |first=Scott |last=Shane |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819033034/http://hnn.us/articles/1709.html |archive-date=19 August 2006 }}</ref>