How Russian hero Stanislav Petrov stopped the Cold War turning hot…

How Russian hero Stanislav Petrov stopped the Cold War turning hot

Computer problems are an annoyance for us all, but thirty years ago a fault in the Soviet Union’s ballistic missile early warning system very nearly caused nuclear war, if not for the actions of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces.…

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