Serpukhov-15

Assembled from 9 blocks · 1 evidence · 4 related

1. Story
2. The closed military settlement and command centre south of Moscow that housed the control station for the Oko early-warning satellite constellation, and the place where the false alarm of 26 September 1983 was received and judged. It is included here as a deliberate example of a record whose geography this pack cannot supply: the facility was a closed installation whose position is not established in any source consulted for this pack, so no coordinate is offered rather than a plausible one derived from the name of a nearby town. What can be said is functional. The centre received satellite reports, correlated them with ground-based radar coverage, and passed assessments up a chain that had minutes rather than hours to work with — an architecture in which the human judgement of a single duty officer was one of very few checks between a sensor reading and a decision.
3. Knowledge
4. Serpukhov-15
5. Connections
6. The Oko early-warning satellite system
7. The Oko system reports a false American missile launch
8. Evidence
9. Named as the general narrative authority behind this pack's framing of the period, and cited in the Journey's own declared references. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. It is also a work with a definite interpretive position — broadly, that Soviet conduct drove the confrontation and that Western pressure and Soviet internal failure ended it — and this pack cites it as one reading rather than as a neutral summary.