Events tagged with "fort ritchie"

Historical Events tagged with "fort ritchie"

Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.

Military & Warfare

False Alarm of Soviet Nuclear Strike

November 9th, 1979 45 years ago

The NORAD computers wrongly detected a massive Soviet nuclear attack, prompting immediate alerts in the United States. Systems at the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, indicated the threat based on raw data analysis from satellites and early-warning radar information. Rapid communication and verification efforts led to the cancellation of the alert, averting a potential crisis without an actual enemy strike happening.