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Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in... by yardie on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:21AM (#8400579)
This and a few others. Going through the wired archives you'll find many examples of nuclear false alarms and brinkmanship where the only thing stopping annihilation is an officer ignoring or delaying the order to launch [1][2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

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