This Russian Officer Saved The World From Nuclear War 38 Years Ago Today

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer, poses at his home in 2015 near Moscow. In 1983, he was on duty when the Soviet Union's early warning satellite indicated the U.S. had fired nuclear weapons at his country. He suspected, correctly, it was a false alarm and did not immediately send the report up the chain of command. Petrov died at age 77. Pavel Golovkin/AP  

WNU Editor: For more information on what he did go here .... 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (Wikipedia), and from this article ywo years ago .... 36 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war (VOX) 

 Stanislav Petrov passed away 4 years ago .... Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77 (NPR).

Remebering Stanislav Petrov, The Man Who Saved The World From A Nuclear War 35 Years Ago

35 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world. pic.twitter.com/UspuRSp569

— Top Pictures (@TopInternetPics) September 26, 2018

WNU Editor: Regular readers of WNU know that I have done a number of posts on Stanislav Petrov over the years. Here is a good summary on the man and what he did .... This Man Saved The World On September 26, 1983 (July 15, 2015).

The Man Who Saved The World From Nuclear War In 1983 Has Passed Away

RT: 'I was just doing my job': Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77

A Soviet officer who prevented a nuclear crisis between the US and the USSR and possible World War III in the 1980s has quietly passed away. He was 77. In 2010 RT spoke to Stanislav Petrov, who never considered himself a hero. We look at the life of the man who saved the world.

A decision that Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov once took went down in history as one that stopped the Cold War from turning into nuclear Armageddon, largely thanks to Karl Schumacher, a political activist from Germany who helped the news of his heroism first reach a western audience nearly two decades ago.

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My Comment: I wrote about the man a few years ago ....

.... Life is always very strange. A retired officer who now lives the simple life of a pensioner .... but .... his 15 minutes of fame ended up saving hundreds of millions (if not billions) of lives. His name is only known by a few, but the world owes him a debt a gratitude that will be remembered for all time.

For more info on the incident that could have plunged the world into nuclear war, go here.

More News On The Death Of Stanislav Petrov

The man who saved the world dies aged 77: Soviet military officer who averted World War Three when radar fault showed US had launched nuclear missiles at Russia passes away -- Daily Mail
Stanislav Petrov dead: The Soviet officer who 'saved the world' by averting nuclear war dies aged 77 -- The Independent
Stanislav Petrov: Soviet officer who saved world from 1983 nuclear armageddon dies -- International Business Times
Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Armageddon in 1983 Dies at 77 -- Gizmodo

This Man Saved The World On September 26, 1983

WNU Editor: I have written extensively about Stanislav Petrov over the years .... even trying to meet the man about ten years ago .... but at that time he was not in the mood to meet anyone. It is good to see that the recognition that he so richly deserves is now happening to him .... because he truly did save the world on September 26, 1983. The BBC have just released a podcast on this unremarkable .... but very remarkable man .... Could This Man Have Saved the World? (BBC).

The Man Who Saved The World 30 Years Ago

Petrov receives a 2011 German media award from Karlheinz Koegel, chief of the German Media Research Group, during a ceremony in 2012. (Reuters)

The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Absolutely Nothing -- The Atlantic

Thirty years ago, Stanislav Petrov proved a cool head in a Cold War.

It was September 26, 1983. Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was on duty at Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker outside Moscow. His job: to monitor Oko, the Soviet Union's early-warning system for nuclear attack. And then to pass along any alerts to his superiors. It was just after midnight when the alarm bells began sounding. One of the system's satellites had detected that the United States had launched five ballistic missiles. And they were heading toward the USSR. Electronic maps flashed; bells screamed; reports streamed in. A back-lit red screen flashed the word 'LAUNCH.'"

That the U.S. would be lobbing missiles toward its Soviet counterpart would not, of course, have been out of the question at that particular point in human history. Three weeks earlier, Russians had shot down a South Korean airliner that had wandered into Soviet air space. NATO had responded with a show of military exercises. The Cold War, even in the early '80s, continued apace; the threat of nuclear engagement still hovered over the stretch of land and sea that fell between Washington and Moscow.

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More News On The Man Who Saved The World 30 Years Ago

Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world -- BBC
The Soviet Colonel Who Averted Nuclear War -- Radio Free Europe
30 years on: The day a computer glitch nearly caused World War III -- The Register
How One Russian Man Helped Prevent A Nuclear Holocaust -- Huffington Post

My Comment: This is wrote about him last year ....

.... Life is always very strange. A retired officer who now lives the simple life of a pensioner .... but .... his 15 minutes of fame ended up saving hundreds of millions (if not billions) of lives. His name is only known by a few, but the world owes him a debt a gratitude that will be remembered for all time.

For more info on the incident that could have plunged the world into nuclear war, go here.

Soviet Officer Recognized For His Role In Preventing Nuclear War In 1983

Soviet Officer Awarded Prize for Preventing Nuclear War. © RIA Novosti. Sergej Pirogov

Soviet Officer Awarded Prize for Preventing Nuclear War -- RIA Novosti

DRESDEN, February 17 (RIA Novosti) – A retired Soviet lieutenant colonel whose self-control prevented a nuclear war from being triggered by a long-classified accident in 1983 was honored with a German anti-war prize on Sunday.

Stanislav Petrov, 73, won the fourth Dresden-Preis (Dresden Prize), which comes complete with a check for 25,000 euro ($33,000). The awarding ceremony, which marks the anniversary of the Dresden bombing in 1945, was held in the Dresden Opera Theatre (the Semperoper).

One of the organizers, Director General of Friends of Dresden Deutschland, Heidrun Hannusch, said Petrov had "averted a third world war" and his heroic deed will go down in history as one of the most significant events of the past few decades that contributed to the preservation of peace.

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My Comment: This is wrote about him a few months ago ....

.... Life is always very strange. A retired officer who now lives the simple life of a pensioner .... but .... his 15 minutes of fame ended up saving hundreds of millions (if not billions) of lives. His name is only known by a few, but the world owes him a debt a gratitude that will be remembered for all time.

For more info on the incident that could have plunged the world into nuclear war, go here.