Duluth Airbase Intruder Lyrics

Baffin Bay near Greenland '68, 4 H bombs overhead
Fire breaks out that kills one of the members of the crew
Plane crashes in sea ice, there's contamination everywhere
Documents suggest that only 3 bombs were recovered

Duluth airbase intruder, we've come so close so often
It's hard to believe that we have been so MAD
Duluth airbase intruder, it's down to a matter of seconds
Is God guiding us away from our demise

Suffolk 1956 there was a plane that lost control
Crashed into a bunker that was holding 3 atomic bombs
It's a miracle that the detonators didn't blow
Eastern England spared from a nuclear disaster

Four US commands all show the warning in '79
A Soviet ICBM strike was on its way
Nukes were prepared for launch and Command Post was readied
By mistake someone had loaded in a training tape

Duluth airbase intruder, we've come so close so often
It's hard to believe that we have been so MAD
Duluth airbase intruder, it's down to a matter of seconds
Is God guiding us away from our demise

In the Cuban crisis a U-2 bomber went astray
Flew into Russian airspace, made a dangerous mistake
US nuke armed fighters met with Russian MiG
The pilots could have chosen to have started World War III

Stanislav Petrov saved the world in 1983
His computer told him of an imminent attack
He didn't pass it on because he didn't think that it was true
Turned out to be a false alarm, it could have gone so badly wrong

During Cuban crisis an intruder at the Duluth fence
Delta Dart interceptors take off, they're ready to engage
Protocol states that there are no drills during DEFCON 3
The Duluth airbase intruder was found to be a bear

Duluth airbase intruder, we've come so close so often
It's hard to believe that we have been so MAD
Duluth airbase intruder, it's down to a matter of seconds
Is God guiding us away from our demise