War on the Castle, Peace in the Valley🛡️🍉🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦#2023goals #nonukes ie. #nuclear war I am staying agnostic on #nuclearpower w great hopes for #nuclearfusion That said, 2023 is the forty year anniversary of an event in which the US and the USSR nearly engaged in a war by which you and I would likely not be here not mastodoning about stuff...this gift article from my paid sub should NOT be paywalled and is actually a nice read...
"Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.
A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he was a few hours into his shift as the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the secret command center outside Moscow where the Soviet military monitored its early-warning satellites over the United States, when alarms went off.
Computers warned that five Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched from an American base.
“For 15 seconds..."
