Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 5 Oktober 1960 / Time Line October 5, 1960
Version 3.54. Oktober 1960, 6. Oktober 1960
10/05/1960
Alice in Wonderland
On the afternoon of October 5, 1960, a radar installation in
Greenland named White Alice picked up a swarm of approaching enemy
blips headed for the continental United States. The high-level
alert code ''Cocoa Color Actual" was put into effect, aircraft were
scrambled, missiles were fueled, and, in the word of an officer,
"Fingers were definitely placed on buttons." It was only after
twenty minutes had passed that it was figured out Alice had been
picking up its own signals bouncing off the moon, 250.000 nautical
miles away.
Source: Barasch, Marc Ian : The Little Black Book of Atomic War.
New York 1973.
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