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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
kralcttam ("kralcttam ☕️") wrote:
Happy Stanislav Petrov day!
Today marks 43 years since Petrov decided to wait for confirmation before escalating a missile alert up the chain of command in the Soviet Air Defense, preventing nuclear war.
A hero for not trusting automated systems fully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%5FSoviet%5Fnuclear%5Ffalse%5Falarm%5Fincident?wprov=sfti1