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What if Stanislav Petrov prevented the nuclear war, but the computer glitch happened again on August 22, 1990, the Russians ordered to nuke the world on 10:34 a.m. at the pacific?
What will happen to the United States and the rest of the world at the aftermath of the nuclear disaster?
It was not a computer glitch anyway IIRC. It was a misinterpretation of specular reflections of sunlight off lakes in the upper American midwest. It required a particular set of weather pattern and geometries of sun angles and satellite position that was only possible right around the equinox, I do believe. Sudden bright flares of sun reflection overloaded the sensors on the early warning satellite and were misread as IR plumes from missile launches. As the satellite moved and the earth rotates, the flares occurred several times off nearby lakes.
No way this happens at a different time of year. Its got to be within a week or two of either the autumnal or vernal equinoxes.