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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by mpweiher on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:22AM (#25134051)
For example: a mistaken belief that they were being targeted.

The book The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel describes such a scenario.

Chilling.

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jeffrey-Lewis/dp/1328573915/

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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by arethuza on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:46AM (#25135303)
Good book - another book where a Russian/China/US nuclear war starts mainly by accident is Arc Light

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light_(novel)

And, of course, for cases of a war starting because of a false belief that they were about to be attacked there is the real life case of Able Archer 83:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

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