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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.