Happy Stanislav Petrov Day to all who celebrate. Which should be everyone. May his memory be a blessing.

SSatomicanalyst.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 3:26pm

OTD in 1983 in Moscow, just past midnight, 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm decision that a satellite warning of the launch of 5 US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm—thanks to “a funny feeling in my gut”—may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl...

As an undergrad at Sydney University in the early 80s were were all keenly aware of how close we were to a nuclear conflict. We never knew of this specific incident at the time of course, that only came much later.

"I'm not a hero. I was just in the right place at the right time." Sometimes, people are heroes, just for one day (www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLp2...). And that makes all the difference.

41 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war

On September 26, 1983, a Soviet colonel saved the world.

Get the missiles warmin' up in the bullpen!