Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; 7 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. [1]

In an underground bunker beneath the ghostly pines, 44-year-old Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, leans back in the commander’s chair. His day job requires him to troubleshoot the main computer, which processes satellite data.

2013年9月26日 · But duty officer Stanislav Petrov - whose job it was to register apparent enemy missile launches - decided not to report them to his superiors, and instead dismissed them as a false alarm.

2022年4月19日 · Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces who could easily have lived an accomplished but historically unremarkable life. But on 26 September 1983, an unforeseen set of circumstances led to him preventing nuclear armageddon and saving hundreds of millions of lives.

2017年9月18日 · Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces, and his job was to monitor his country's satellite system, which was looking for any...

2024年9月26日 · Stanislav Petrov was the man on duty at the Soviet Serpukhov-15 bunker where the satellite detection system, named Oko, was stationed. Taking in the data from the machine, he was confronted with an apocalyptic vision.

2018年9月26日 · Preventing the deaths of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people was a costly decision for Petrov. If he had been wrong, and he somehow survived the American nuclear strike, he likely ...

2017年9月18日 · Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

2024年5月25日 · In 1983, Soviet officer Petrov was alerted to a suspected American nuclear attack. His cool response to the false warning avoided nuclear war.

2017年10月1日 · Stanislav Petrov, a little-known Russian whose decision averted a potential nuclear war, died in May at 77, a family friend disclosed in mid-September. As a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, Petrov was on duty Sept. 26, 1983, when the early-warning satellite system he was monitoring detected what appeared to be five ...