Who is Stanislav Petrov, the man who literally saved the world from nuclear war?

[yuiyoshida]

Stanislav Petrov, 77, passed away on May 19, 2017. His death in his home in the Moscow suburbs was little noted at the time. Petrov, however, is one of a few humans who can say they literally saved the world. The veteran was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Union Air Defense Forces. On Sept. 26, 1983, the Soviets' early-warning nuclear missile detection system was triggered. The system said the United States had fired five ballistic missiles at the Soviet Union.

[DK504]

1. It's always the quiet sane men/women in the background that

do the work with the earth on their shoulders and get no recognition. There have been silo officers that have had the same situation and they knew to not release hell.

[pansypoo53219]

2. PBS had a doc on that a few years ago. god speed.

[TomVilmer]

3. I can highly recommend this road movie about Stanislav Petrov

"The Man Who Saved the World"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2277106/

Stanislav Petrov had helped build an incredibly expensive early warning radar in Ukraine.The radar was powered by the now herostratically famous nuclear power plant Chernobyl, which was built for this military purpose!


BTW - here is (translated) the original Russian story about the incident
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Farta46.narod.ru%2Flibr%2Fwotin%2Fwotin_3.htm