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Bookmark or Share- Stanislav Petrov - WikipediaStanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; 7 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. [1]
- Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the worldBut duty officer Stanislav Petrov - whose job it was to register apparent enemy missile launches - decided not to report them to his superiors, and instead dismissed them as a false alarm.
- Stanislav Petrov — The Man Who Prevented Nuclear War - All That's ...Not many people know just how close the world came to a nuclear war better than Stanislav Petrov. Petrov was a few hours into his shift on September 26, 1983, as the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the secret command center outside Moscow used for monitoring Soviet military satellites over the United States.
- Stanislav Petrov | Story, Significance, Cold War, & Biography - BritannicaIn an underground bunker beneath the ghostly pines, 44-year-old Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, leans back in the commander’s chair. His day job requires him to troubleshoot the main computer, which processes satellite data.
- Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Annihilation Dies at 77By preventing a retaliatory counterstrike, Petrov likely saved the U.S. and U.S.S.R. from annihilation and the rest of the world from decades of radioactive fallout.
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