Everything about The Norwegian Rocket Incident totally explained
The
Norwegian rocket incident refers to a few minutes of post-
Cold War nuclear tension that took place on
January 25,
1995. The incident started when a team of
Norwegian and
American scientists launched a
Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the
Andøya Rocket Range off the northwest coast of Norway. The rocket, which carried equipment to study the
aurora borealis over
Svalbard, flew on a high northbound
trajectory, eventually reaching an altitude of .
As the rocket climbed, it was detected by the
Olenegorsk early warning radar station in
Russia. To the radar operators, the rocket appeared similar in speed and flight pattern to a U.S. submarine-launched
Trident missile. Russian President
Boris Yeltsin was notified immediately and the "
nuclear briefcase" used to authorize nuclear launch was automatically activated. No warning was issued to the Russian populace of any incident; it was reported in the news a week afterward.
Russian doctrine reportedly allowed Yeltsin ten minutes from the time of detection to decide on a course of action. Russian observers were quickly able to determine that the rocket was heading away from Russian airspace and wasn't a threat. Reports differ greatly as to whether or not Yeltsin came close to authorizing an attack, but the general consensus is that Yeltsin was able to conclude that there was no basis for attack, and therefore no danger. The rocket fell to earth as planned near
Spitsbergen 24 minutes after launch.
The Norwegian and American scientists had notified 30 countries including Russia of their intention to launch a rocket. The information notification wasn't efficient, and the information wasn't passed on to the radar technicians. Following the incident, notification and disclosure protocols were reevaluated and redesigned.
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