Why Boris Yeltsin didn't push the button - Almost WW3
On January 25, 1995, the world was minutes away from starting World War 3. The Norwegian rocket incident occurred. Scientists sent a rocket to study the aurora borealis. They sent message to The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia that they were going to do so, some months back in time.
The problem was, there was a new Russian worker that recieved the letter from Norway, so it didn't go through the system. Therefore Russia thought NATO was going to nuke Moscow.
This is Boris Yeltsin's reaction, enjoy.