http://www.ranker.com/list/times-the-world-almost-got-destroyed/mel-judson


Y2K:

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/1998-99/the-y2k-problem/blame.html

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2072678_2072683_2072599,00.html

http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/y2k_1.pdf

https://www.cnet.com/news/report-u-s-to-spend-100-billion-fighting-y2k/

http://www.cesnur.org/testi/FBI_002.htm

http://pib.nic.in/feature/fe0899/f1508995.html

http://time.com/3645828/y2k-look-back/


The Carrington Event:

http://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110302-solar-flares-sun-storms-earth-danger-carrington-event-science/

2012 Solar Flare:

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/07/23/how-a-solar-storm-nearly-destroyed-life-as-we-know-it-two-years-ago/

The Korean War:

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-korean-war-almost-went-nuclear-180955324/?no-ist

The 1979 Soviet Scare:

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/nuclear-false-alarms.html

The 1980 Soviet Scare:

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371/

The 1995 American Scare:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/closecall/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/coldwar/shatter031598a.htm

The Flu Panic:

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm

The Plague

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-diseases/plague-article/

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/history/

http://www.history.com/topics/black-death


1883 Comet

https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798

http://www.ibtimes.com/giant-comet-almost-hit-earth-1883-324469

http://www.cosmostv.org/2011/10/was-1883-jose-bonilla-astronomy-mystery.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2049896/Was-photographed-UFO-comet-nearly-hit-earth-1883.html