This man saved the world from Nuclear War
How did this man save the world from nuclear war?, Keep reading to find out,
𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧?
This man is Stanislav Petrov he was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces
He was born on 9 September 1939 (age 77)
His whole name is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝?
Some of you may have heard of the1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident,
if not then here is a quick explanation:
On 26 September 1983, Stanislav Petrov was the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow which housed the command center of the Soviet early warning satellites, Petrov his responsibilities included observing the satellite early warning network and notifying his superiors of any nuclear missile attack warning against, the strategy of the Soviet Union was an immediate nuclear counter-attack against the United States.
But Shortly after midnight, the computers in the bunker reported that one ballistic missile was heading toward the Soviet Union from the United States. Petrov considered the detection a computer error, since a first-strike nuclear attack by the United States was likely to involve hundreds of simultaneous missile launches in order to disable any Soviet counterattack, Petrov dismissed the warning as a false alarm
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧?
It was subsequently determined that the false alarms were caused by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds and the satellites'.
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I made this post because i think more people should know this man, almost everyone knows The most popular YouTuber pewdiepie, but fewer people know this man even though he saved the world from nuclear war
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov