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[Gerald]

In a remote forest, a few kilometres from the Chernobyl power plant, the huge Duga-2 radar tower stands as relic of Soviet mismanagement.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0864...nobyl-s-shadow

Cold war relic.

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His name was Popov. Dusko Popov. As a Serbian double agent during the Second World War, Popov was an expert gambler, known womaniser and even crossed paths with James Bond's creator Ian Fleming.

But was he really the inspiration behind 007? And did he have the information that could have prevented the Pearl Harbor attacks, if only he had been believed?

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/th...?vpid=p0808hpp

My name is Bond James Bond.


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The night the world almost almost ended

On a September night in 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov stood guard at a satellite-based missile launch detection system. When the alarm went off, announcing that the US had attacked, Petrov had thirty minutes to decide whether the launch was real or false.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07y7...t-almost-ended

[Kapitan]

I have been to chernobyl and seen it first hand and the duga radar its very impressive indeed my write up here:

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...63#post2459963


Also another name to throw into the mix is Vasily Arkhipov who stopped his Captain launching a nuclear torpedo at the US fleet during the Cuban crisis in 1962

[Gerald]

Interesting. I'm sorry for my post. I will share your thread with joy!

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

Also another name to throw into the mix is Vasily Arkhipov who stopped his Captain launching a nuclear torpedo at the US fleet during the Cuban crisis in 1962

That's another name that needs to be mentioned a lot more in history classes

[Gerald]

[Kapitan]

Indeed i would agree i believe the captain in question was Nikolai Shumkov captain of B39 he and his XO were in favour but arkhipov refused.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Originally Posted by Vendor

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/th...?vpid=p0808hpp

My name is Bond James Bond.

I've read about Popov as well as the other D-Day spies in Ben Macintyre's book Double Cross (which is a pun as the Roman numeral for twenty is XX), his MI5 code names where Skoot and Tricycle. I think Popov was one of two people who where the inspiration for Ian Fleming's character James Bond. The other is possibly Edward "Eddie" Chapman a criminal who was recruited by the Abwehr while imprisoned in Jersey. He was also the only British citizen to have been awarded the Iron Cross.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

I've read about Popov as well as the other D-Day spies in Ben Macintyre's book Double Cross (which is a pun as the Roman numeral for twenty is XX), his MI5 code names where Skoot and Tricycle. I think Popov was one of two people who where the inspiration for Ian Fleming's character James Bond. The other is possibly Edward "Eddie" Chapman a criminal who was recruited by the Abwehr while imprisoned in Jersey. He was also the only British citizen to have been awarded the Iron Cross.

Yes! "Agent Zigzag".

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Yes! "Agent Zigzag".

Indeed.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

Indeed.

Aye!