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The Man Who Didn't Start a War: The Stanislav Petrov Incident 🔻September 26, 1983 Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov prevented a potential nuclear war when, due to a malfunction in the system, a warning was received about the launch of Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from the United States to the USSR. 🔻Petrov, being the operational duty officer at the Serpukhov-15 command post, recognized the alarm as false, which may have prevented the outbreak of World War III. 🔻Fortunately, Petrov did not make any landmark decision. The false alarm (Ложняк [lazh-nyak]) that occurred in the SPRN occurred only at one of the echelons of the system, and the signal did not even pass the first verification circuit. 🔻Not only did he "not report" it, he WAS OBLIGED NOT TO REPORT it, since it was an extremely rare, but possible, one-time failure for us. 🔻He would have violated the instructions if he had given the signal. So it's just an "overblown affair". Photo: HF #RussianMilitary #Kulibin_and_the_Red_Army 😎RCR | Support | Boost