Friday, September 26, 2025

Soviet hero who saved the world in 1983

 On this day, September 26, 1983 Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identified a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike, thus preventing a nuclear war.

What if that happened today and there were no Stanislav Petrov in the room?

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