4h 11min, sep 26, 1983 y - Sept. 26, 1983 – 04:11 GMT+3 (Moscow Time)
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Meanwhile, as Andropov's helicopter is approaching the Kremlin's evacuation bunker forty miles outside of Moscow, he receives a chilling report. The first "projected" missile has reached its target in Murmansk ... but no detonation has occurred. Quickly checking, Soviet generals discover that the first targets that were supposed to have been destroyed minutes earlier, showed NO incoming warheads and no detonation. Andropov suffers a massive stroke as he realized he has just started World War-III on a false alarm. A minute later the first Soviet missile detonates in Beijing, China, followed quickly by one at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. Minutes after that, a second, REAL report of incoming American missiles is reported.
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4h 11min, sep 26, 1983 y
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