Today in 1983
Posted By Traveler on 26. September 2010
In an amazing example of rational and clear thinking, Stanislav Petrov judged a missle warning reporting a nuclear attack by the USA on the USSR as a false alarm, which it was. If it had not been for then-Lieutenant colonel Petrov, the Soviets would very likely have launched a “retaliatory” attack on the USA.
So, without Petrov, few, if any, of us would be around today.
Raise your glasses to Stanislav Petrov, forgotten hero of the Cold War:
Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
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