Richard Nixon's drunken order to drop an atomic bomb on North Korea

 The Night Richard Nixon Ordered a Nuclear Strike on North Korea

When North Korea shot down a US spy plane in April 1969, an enraged and inebriated President Richard Nixon ordered the drop of a 330-kiloton atomic bomb on a North Korean military airport. Fortunately, Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, intervened and requested that the order be delayed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. https://tinyurl.com/wrxbmycd By the following morning, a sober Nixon had canceled. In the book "The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon," Kissinger is quoted as saying: "If the President had been unchecked, there would have been a nuclear war every week."