(December 21, 2014 at 9:52 am)Rhythm Wrote: Sept 26th, 1983-just past midnight. A malfunction in the soviet early warning satellite system causes the alarms under the watch of one Stanislov Petrov (on call that day - not scheduled to be there) to fire off. A missile has been launched from the US, and is headed towards the Soviet Union. Petrov decides that it must be an error, the US wouldn't launch a single missile. Then it showed a second missile. A third, a fourth, and a fifth. He waited, then decided not to issue the alarm that could have terminated in a retaliatory strike from the soviets.
Balls of steel.
And since military brass is all about orders and rather stupid, he got punished for not retaliating and following reason instead.
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