Thank this man for your existance on earth.

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Thank this man for your existance on earth.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

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On September 26, 1983, he was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported a missile being launched from the United States. Petrov judged that the report was a false alarm.[1] This decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies, which would have likely resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the satellite warning system had malfunctioned.




I did not know about this until today, fascinating.

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Scary story- I saw that on The Military Channel a while back. It would have caught us flat-flooted, at DEFCON 5, assuming it was a pre-emptive attack. Imagine if some Russky teabagger had been on duty, and not Petrov.
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