The ever hotest time in the cold war was during the cuban crisis. A spy usa pilot in the sky saw a soviet missile being assembled in Cuba.
There was threat of nuclear reatliation as a result.
The 1979 NORAD Computer Glitch
the two super powers came again to the brink of nuclear war in 1979 after a false nuclear alert. Usa assembled its fighter jet, including the presidential dooms day fighter for retaliation.
