Aldri tro at du ikke kan gjøre en forskjell! I dag lærte verden at Stanislav Petrov er død, mannen som reddet verden https://t.co/CIPbxQJLBC

2017-09-18 13:03:12

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'I was just doing my job': The man you've never heard of who saved the world dies at 77

A Soviet officer who averted thermonuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union had died aged 77. Soon after midnight on 26 September, 1983, duty officer Stanislav Petrov was in charge of an early warning radar system in a bunker near Moscow when computer readouts suggested several missiles had been launched from the US towards the USSR.