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You owe your life to this man


               
2015 Aug 9, 1:15am   658 views  3 comments

by Dan8267   follow (4)  

Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world

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.

This was a breach of his instructions, a dereliction of duty. The safe thing to do would have been to pass the responsibility on, to refer up.

But his decision may have saved the world.

"I had all the data [to suggest there was an ongoing missile attack]. If I had sent my report up the chain of command, nobody would have said a word against it," he told the BBC's Russian Service 30 years after that overnight shift.

#politics

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1   curious2   2015 Aug 9, 3:25am  

And Vasili Arkhipov, among other world heroes who deserve similar recognition in this context.

2   Tenpoundbass   2015 Aug 9, 9:30am  

Yep him and Kennedy.
Kennedy got posthumous credit for shit he never did or accomplished and is never credited for the things he actually did.
Miami would be Nuclear wasteland today if not for his cool head and calm handling of the Cuban missile crisis.
He had people screaming at him from all angle to push the button.

3   indigenous   2015 Aug 9, 9:39am  

True Dat to all of them.

Nuclear torpedoes? WTF Sounds like nuclear hand grenades, I guess they recruited guys with really good arms?

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