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Stanislav 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] On 26 September 1983, three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down ...
Sep 26, 2013 · 26 September 2013. Stanislav Petrov: ''I knew perfectly well that nobody would be able to correct my mistake if I had made one''. By Pavel Aksenov. BBC Russian. Thirty years ago, on 26 September ...
Sep 3, 2024 · Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov. Serpukhov -15 is a small military townlet about 80 miles (130 km) south of Moscow. It’s sparse, dotted with evergreens, stoically rectangular warehouses, and several giant gray domes. A skeleton of the capital city, bleached through and through. On the night of September 26, 1983, it’s quiet.
Apr 19, 2022 · Harry Atkins. Stanislav Petrov, 'the man who saved the world', photographed in 1999. Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces who could easily have lived an accomplished but historically unremarkable life. But on 26 September 1983, an unforeseen set of circumstances led to him preventing nuclear armageddon and ...
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Sep 26, 2024 · Stanislav Petrov was the man on duty at the Soviet Serpukhov-15 bunker where the satellite detection system, named Oko, was stationed. Taking in the data from the machine, he was confronted with an apocalyptic vision. American nuclear warheads were, it seemed, cruising through the atmosphere, carving out a path of imminent destruction.
Sep 26, 2024 · The doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) guaranteed that if either side launched its weapons, both nations, and likely the world, would perish. Enter Stanislav Petrov: a mid-ranking Soviet officer working in a bunker outside Moscow. Petrov wasn’t a general. He wasn’t a political leader. He wasn’t even in charge of making decisions.
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Sep 18, 2017 · Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer, poses at his home in 2015 near Moscow. In 1983, he was on duty when the Soviet Union's early warning satellite indicated the U.S. had fired ...
