The Man Who Prevented planet War III… due to the fact that He Didn't Trust Computers

Zdjęcie: Stanisław Pietrow


At 5 minutes past midnight, a screen in the Moscow command center informed Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov of a rocket heading toward the USSR. Although, according to procedure, he should have notified his superiors, he chose to ignore the alarm. In doing so, he saved the planet from war....