Category: Education
Language: EnglishKeywords: petrov's dilemma
Written by BBC R4 Documentary
Format: MP3
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September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, was
manning a USSR facility monitoring early-warning satellites. The
system told him that the US had launched nuclear missiles.
Petrov considered his options before reporting a malfunction …
… and we all lived.