Submitted by poorsenseofdirection t3_yir1we in AskReddit
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woohooenjoyingspeed t1_iuk16rm wrote
I dodged a 44 magnum 👍
SynchroScale t1_iuk172p wrote
The Cold War ending in a big boom.
Ar1st0cr4t1c t1_iuk17bu wrote
He’d be better than Biden right now
DeltaSolana t1_iuk18qp wrote
The USSR decided to take the missiles out of Cuba.
We were seriously a single button press from the end of the world.
Apart_Park_7176 t1_iuk1bc6 wrote
The bullet Stanislav Petrov saved us from.
Or the one Vasily Arkhipov saved us from.
SausageDogsMomma t1_iuk1lpy wrote
Came here to say this. Arkhipov & Petrov should be known by everyone as they literally saved the world.
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No_Load_7183 t1_iuk1sip wrote
Ar1st0cr4t1c t1_iuk1uu1 wrote
Reddit’s gone soft
Apart_Park_7176 t1_iuk1xls wrote
I agree. Especially Petrov. Because he used his judgement and thought it was a flase alarm and even if it wasn't. What good would taking more innocent lives accomplish.
woohooenjoyingspeed t1_iuk26iq wrote
Nah I dodged a bullet from a large bore revolver last year
Drdark65 t1_iuk2d1j wrote
In 1983, a soviet base got a false alarm about Nuclear War, and got ready to launch. But for a nuclear launch, both the highest ranking officers had to agree to launch, and if there was another high-ranked officer on visit, he would have to agree too. So when this situation happened, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, a Leutenant Colonel was on inspection, and so he had to agree to the launch. While the other two Officers voted to launch, Stanislav thought it was a false alarm and reasoned that even if it was real the countless other Nukes launched from the USSR would be more than enough. So they didn't launch a nuke. If they had, Nuclear war would have started, and humanity would most likely be wiped out
Vasily Arkhipov did a very similar thing, but I don't know enough about him
Drdark65 t1_iuk2f7m wrote
Ma boy the flash here
woohooenjoyingspeed t1_iuk2h8i wrote
Yeahhh of coursee I take speed
soIstartBlasting t1_iuk2idz wrote
Hitler not pushing further into Britain when it was all but his to take.
My guess is he wouldn’t have just stopped at the edge of the Atlantic and called it good.
Drdark65 t1_iuk2s6t wrote
r/namechecksout
No_Load_7183 t1_iuk3amp wrote
Thats cool but did you do it like Neo in the matrix?
woohooenjoyingspeed t1_iuk3d47 wrote
Nah like just dodged to the side real quick
No_Load_7183 t1_iuk3kn8 wrote
While that's cool as shit, you gotta go back and do it like Neo. Live my dream.
SausageDogsMomma t1_iukb7zq wrote
It was apparently the sun reflecting on their radar that looked like ICBM’s had been launched. With Vasily Arkhipov, it was depth charges dropped by their submarine, 2 others had agreed to a nuclear launch, and as 3 approvals were required for launch Arkhipov refused. These guys should both get a day were we all celebrate them.
data_now t1_iuk145n wrote
A second term for Donald Trump.