USS Woodrow Wilson SSBN 624 from 1966 through 1971. Please be discrete with this information. It may still be a classified incident, as it does not appear to be part of the list of about two dozen such known incidents over the years.

I don't see how it has anything to do with John Henry or man v. machine. It was human error from one branch of the military getting ahold of codes from the Navy they shouldn't have had and accidentally using them in an exercise.

Endless wrote:Yea i saw that movie too. It was Crimson Tide.

(edited to remove potentially personal information about the service person) He's one of the most reliable and upstanding people I've ever met.

I know of one instance where the USA accidentally gave valid launch orders to a ballistic missile sub that had been submerged and quiet for some time. The crew thought all their families were dead and their orders were to launch on Eastern European and Russian targets as belated retaliation. The lau...

It's just a game.