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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Stanislav Petrov 

Donald Sensing writes that if you are alive today it may be because of Stanislav Petrov, the forgotten hero of the Cold War. He ignored standing orders to fire ICBMs at the United States "on launch," and thereby avoided global catastrophe. Unbelievable.

1 Comments:

By Blogger BillyBudd, at Tue Jan 18, 09:56:00 PM:

In the blink of an eye, world history could have been changed, creepy.  

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