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The man who avoided world War 3.
Naval officer, not army.
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Also not a bomb. A short range nuclear torpedo or SRBM depending on which source you pull from. Most likely the former.
There should be a petition to name a ship after him for the service to humanity and maybe a bit because Russia will spontaneously combust in anger.
Another hero who averted WWIII in 1983 when he refused to believe an early warning system and went against protocol was Stanislav Petrov.
There was a couple times a Russian was supposed to "push the button" and didn't. And probably a lot more that aren't common knowledge.
Sometimes they thought it was a bug, sometimes they thought just Russia being obliterated was better than the whole world.
Soviet Union*
Poland, Ukraine and Baltic States would be obliterated too
Nah, if anything I probably over estimated.
The incidents I've heard about was all false reports of a single nuke coming to Russia.
And the operator who's procedures required them to launch a counter strike just didn't do it.
No country is dumb enough to start nuclear Armageddon with a single nuke. It's kind of an "all or nothing" thing, so a single nuke is likely a glitch.
A legendary hero for our times.
There's a wisdom in being willing to just wait another minute and then another when there's no obvious good options.
Didn't exist in the fallout universe tho
Pretty great that the Soviet Union almost caused a global apocalypse several times.
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