Someone who’s actually saved the world. A super hero of sorts.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Thank You, Stanislav: Forty minutes after midnight, September 26, the computer system registered the launch of a Minuteman missile from the United States. In a 2004 interview for the Moscow News, Petrov described what happened:“An alarm at the command and control post went off with red lights blinking on the terminal. It was a nasty shock,” the lieutenant colonel admits. “Everyone jumped from their seats, looking at me. What could I do? There was an operations procedure that I had written myself. We did what we had to do. We checked the operation of all systems - on 30 levels, one after another. Reports kept coming in: All is correct; the probability factor is two.”
“What does that mean?”
“The highest,” analyst Petrov smiles…
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