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"The Man Who Saved the World"
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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
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