Drdark65
Drdark65 t1_iuk2f7m wrote
Reply to comment by woohooenjoyingspeed in What's a big bullet we've dodged in history? by poorsenseofdirection
Ma boy the flash here
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_iuk2s6t wrote
Reply to comment by woohooenjoyingspeed in What's a big bullet we've dodged in history? by poorsenseofdirection
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