Col. Stanislav Petrov, Savior of the World?

[unixronin]

Interesting reading about how World War III almost started in 1983, except for one Russian colonel who said, "Fuck, this makes no sense, I won't do it."

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Unless, of course, we tried a sneak launch of five missiles to take out a couple of their most crucial systems first in an effort to decapitate their launch system, hoping they'd be certain it was a glitch because no real sneak attack would be only five missiles....