Was there really almost a nuclear war back in 1995?

I was reading about a situation called the [b]Norwegian rocket incident/Black Brant scare[/b]. Basically, Russia mistaked a rocket that was launched by Norway and the U.S. to study the Aurora Borealis, for a U.S. Navy Trident missile and started freaking out. So Russia's president was ready to press the button to hit a retaliatory nuclear strike against the U.S., until it was determined that the missile was just a harmless rocket. I would have only been six years old when this happened and I don't remember it at all.

[quote]The World Was Never Closer To Nuclear War Than On Jan. 25, 1995[/quote]

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-world-has-never-been-closer-to-nuclear-war-than-it-was-during-this-1995-event-2012-8