Whoops Apocalypse part 2

I urge everyone to see the new documentary "Countdown to Zero", which focuses on the continued danger of living in a world full of nuclear weapons. While I feel that there is little use in spending day and night worried about the possibilities of impending armageddon, it is useful to keep current geopolitical unrest (ie Iran, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea) in the context of the Nuclear Age. When one considers the list of nations that possess nuclear armaments, of which we are arguably the most prominent, a new perspective on the meaning of "rogue state" comes into focus. I don't foresee France nuking anyone in a hissyfit anytime soon, but the remaining nations on the list of the nuclear club (England, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, North Korea, and the United States) are anything but stabilizing global influences. Far from it. We are still the only nation that has used atomic weapons, and throughout the last half century the nuclear armed nations have held the rest of the world psychologically hostage with the terrible scenarios imaginable should their arsenals be employed.
Something that is touched on in chilling fashion halfway through the narrative of "Countdown to Zero" is a close call that occurred in 1995. A surveillance rocket fired into the atmosphere by American and Norwegian scientists was misconstrued by Russian radar as a first strike nuclear assault. Then Russian President Boris Yeltsin was thankfully not in a bad mood and/or drunk at the time, and even though he was in immediate communication with his military advisers, Yeltsin rightfully suspected the rocket in question was not an initial bellicose maneuver on the part of the United States.
The fact that a technical glitch could potentially trigger the end of the world is, I admit, darkly humorous. And as everything since "Strangelove" has proven, we might as well chuckle at the Apocalypse since we have very little control over who or what might launch it. So as I said, I am not losing any sleep over this stuff. But I am not going to ignore it either.