The Man Who Literally Saved the World

99luftballon writes "Today is an important anniversary for Russian hero Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet missile commander who saved the world from nuclear destruction in 1983. Sadly there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing. How long will we keep getting lucky?"

Comments

Re:Why Only U.S. & Russia?

[rubycodez]

those little kiloton-range fission firecrackers the indians and pakis have? naw. Now 200 one to three megaton thermonuclear devices would be another matter

Re:That list is clearly missing one

[umghhh]

Even if nucelar winter is an exaggerated leftist propaganda there would be millions of direct casualities and millions of indirect. have you ever thought what results would for instance a major pandemic have if current health infrastructure ceased to exist? Maybe we as human race would survive but our civilization would be over.

Still as we have no real world data I suggest we perform a test and nuclear assult china for instance. I hope they have enough resources to perform this experiment. Come to think of it clearing RIAA from the face of the earth may be worth a try. //

Re:Why Only U.S. & Russia?

[stjobe]

FSRUSSR (Former soviet republics of USSR)

Let's spell that out shall we?
Former Soviet Republics of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

<dramatic pause>

What on earth are you talking about?

Are you trying to be accurate or are you just fond of acronyms? ;)

Your acronym is redundant, it's politically, geographically and historically incorrect, and furthermore there's no literary, academic or even artistical merit to introducing an acronym if you're just going to use it once.

All other merit of your post, as for example your having an interesting question on the second line, is of course totally negated by this gaffe. ;)

Please reformulate and resubmit.