RT:
A Soviet officer who prevented a nuclear crisis between the US and the USSR and possible World War III in the 1980s has quietly passed away. He was 77. In 2010 RT spoke to Stanislav Petrov, who never considered himself a hero. We look at the life of the man who saved the world.
This is a truly terrifying story and, sadly, he never got the recognition and appreciation he deserved.
The U.N. should declare a commemorative day for Lt. Petrov. Celebrate the fact that nuclear weapons did’t destroy spaceship Earth thanks to Lt. Petrov’s ‘presence of mind’.
I agree!
Immediately seems like a really good time to initiate this kind of dialogue.
If only the Soviet Union hadn’t been replaced by something even worse.