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The false alarm that happened on Petrov's watch could not have come at a more dangerous, intense phase in U.S.–Soviet relations. [ 8 ] In an interview aired on American television, Blair said, "The Russians [Soviets] saw a U.S. government preparing for a first strike, headed by a President Ronald Reagan capable of ordering a first strike."
Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm. [2] His subsequent decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, [3] is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that would have likely resulted in a large-scale nuclear war. An investigation later confirmed that ...
The Man Who Saved the World is a 2013 feature-length Danish documentary film by filmmaker Peter Anthony about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces and his role in preventing the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident from leading to nuclear holocaust.
Convinced that a real American offensive would involve many more missiles, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Air Defense Forces refused to acknowledge the threat as legitimate and continued to convince his superiors that it was a false alarm until this could be confirmed by ground radar.
A Whatcom County man accused of rape has been arrested and remains in custody. Ferndale police received a report of a sexual assault on Feb. 23, which led to the arrest of Esteban Reina, 24, of ...
His name was Colonel Stanislav Petrov. Image credits: Lizzy_Of_Galtar #2.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating reports of alleged engine failures in GM's 6.2-liter L87 V-8, an engine used in a wide variety of trucks and SUVs.
Later, the system reported four more ICBM launches headed to the Soviet Union, but Petrov again dismissed the reports as false. The investigation that followed revealed that the system indeed malfunctioned and the false alarms were caused by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds underneath the satellites' orbits.