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The Man Who Literally Saved the World

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the close-calls dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:In Soviet Russia Petrov saves you? by suv4x4 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    and there's a much better article than the TFA

    You know, people keep saying "the TFA" and I'm thinking: what if we shorten it to TTFA?
    Then it becomes "the TTFA" ... oh damn.. ok let me try again, "TTTFA"?

    I can't win, can I... :(