During the Cold War, the entire world on was on a hair trigger, and there were tons of close calls and nuclear threats. This incident is one of the closest times we got to war. On June 3rd, 1980, at 3am, the U.S. President’s national security advisor for an emergency phone call that there was a missile strike inbound.

He called the President, put the country on alert and started to prime their nukes and deploy their Air Force. Luckily enough, someone decided to verify before giving the final launch order, only to find that a 46 cent computer chip had malfunctioned, and made it seem like there were missiles coming.

Because of that malfunctioning chip, the world almost ended.