Jens ♥Sep 27, 2018

Yesterday, 26th of September was Stanislav Petrov Day.

A day to celebrate that you, me, everyone isn't nuclear vapour right now.
SP - disobeyed orders and military protocol, used his own thinking, and by doing so averted nuclear retaliation based on false alarms that would likely have caused a mass nuclear war in 1983.

Stanislav Petrov, often referred to as "The man who saved the world" died in December 2017

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@ohyran actually he died in May.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/world/europe/stanislav-petrov-nuclear-war-dead.html
Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77

After a Soviet computer system warned that the Americans had launched a nuclear missile attack, he decided — correctly — that it was a false alarm.

Sep 27, 2018 at 7:54pmWeb