One incident would definitely be during the cold war more specifically during The Bay Of Pigs
another would be during a false alarm in which we thought Russia had fired nuclear weapons at us and refrained from firing back before being sure
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In his book, Aryabhata, he suggested that the Earth was sphere, containing a circumference of 24,835 miles (39,967 km). Aryabhata also mentioned that reflected sunlight is the cause behind the shining of the Moon.