19 February 2013
If a large meteorite were to have crashed into US/USSR during the early 80ies, it would have been interpreted as a nuclear attack; So thanks it did not happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
The meteor that crashed into the Urals made a bang worth 300 Kilotones of TNT; all that in a region that is stacked with strategic/nuclear shit; I shit my pants;
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_16/Meteor-caused-300-kiloton-blast-over-Urals/