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> not a single rogue general

There was a rogue soviet lieutenant colonel though, and thank god for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

Hardly rogue. In his own words - his job was to supervise the radar system and make judgement calls. He judged the detection of a single "missile" to be a false positive sincea a NATO would have consisted of a massed first strike rather than a single bogey. Petrov simply did his job.

How was he a rogue? He was doing his job and he did it well, and saved a lot of lives. That doesn’t make a rogue.

"the Soviet Union's strategy was an immediate and compulsory nuclear counter-attack against the United States (launch on warning), specified in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction."

Immediate. Compulsory.

Yeah, but there wasn't an attack.

What’s not included is the confirmation that they are under attack.

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