Stanislav Petrov
Judged the 1983 missile alert false
Timeline - Petrov in the record
3 referenced events from the UVB-76 - The Buzzer archive.
Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, on duty at a Soviet early-warning centre, decides that a satellite report of incoming American missiles is a malfunction and does not pass it up the chain. He is right. The episode shows how thin the human margin was in the systems the Buzzer's myth invokes.
Long after the fact, Petrov is recognised internationally as 'the man who saved the world'. He dies in 2017, having spent decades insisting he was simply doing his job.
A documentary-drama brings Petrov's 1983 decision to a wide audience. He remains uneasy with the hero's role, insisting the systems he served left far too much to chance, and to a single tired officer on a night shift.
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