The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was placed on DEFCON 2. Other elements of the US Military remained at DEFCON 3. DEFCON 1 has never been used.
FROM: ottawa1234 DECON stand for: DEFence CONdition. When a nations feels threatened possibly by a war, they would lower the DEFCON to 1, meaning increased military readiness incase of wars. And DEFCOM 5 is normal peace-time readiness, anything in beetween should be pretty clear.
We moved to Defcon 2 because relations with Fidel Castro were becoming complicated. After the failure of The Bay of Pigs Invasion Castro became Afraid of the U.S invading the island of Cuba. He considered launching all nuclear war heads that would be defined as MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
The United states has only been at def con 2 once. This was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some believe that we went to def con 2 during 9/11.
At the time that U.S. military forces worldwide go to DEFCON 3 and encourage all NATO forces to do the same. Supreme NATO Commander Norstad, however, refuses to do so. General Norstad was scheduled to relinquish his NATO command on Nov. 1, 1962, but the Cuban missile crisis that October prompted NATO to ask him to stay in the post until early in 1963. As the crisis deepened, the U.S. went to DEFCON 2 for the first time in history. On October 28, 1962, the United States sends instructions to its NATO allies that military actions to attack Cuba are imminent. At the height of nuclear brinkmanship between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Kennedy agrees to dedicate part of his nuclear arsenal to NATO. Khrushchev the same day broadcasts on Radio Moscow, effectively ends the missile crisis.
How close the u.s. is to war- defcon five means we are peaceful, defcon 1 means we are going to war. Defcon is also a real time strategy video game for PC. The shortened version of "Defcon" is commonly used within the online gaming community referring to the game server company "Defconservers" *improvement* defcon is not how close we are to going to war defcon is defence (def) condition (con) because we have been to war but never to defcon 1 the worst ever was defcon 2 and we are currently at 5
Defcon Robot Contest was created in 2003.
DEFCON - video game - happened in 2006.
DEFCON 3
DEFCON - video game - was created on 2006-09-29.
the answer is no because the US has not gotten hit by a nuclear device
Defcon has 5 levels. Defcon 5 is the lowest, the normal setting, so yes the US have been at D5 Defcon 4 is above normal, so during a war like Afghan and Iraq, D4 would have been activated Defcon 3 is where we start to worry. This is the one during critical points during war. Just to put into perspective, D4 was standard setting for ICBM sites during the Cold War. Defcon 2 is not good at all. There has been only 1 point where D2 was called and that was Cuban Missile Crisis, where the world was hours away from a MAD war. Defcon 1 is the worst. At this point, say goodbye, nuclear war is minutes away. D1 had never been called and I hope it never is. Defcon details remain classified and criteria for their setting has changed over the years.
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The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was placed on DEFCON 2. Other elements of the US Military remained at DEFCON 3. DEFCON 1 has never been used.
Defense condition.
Contamination Defcon 4 - 2013 was released on: USA: 9 July 2013
· The goons who attend DEFCON were British Comedy Program they wore red shirts