The 38 Minutes That Almost Ended Everything
A Soviet officer ignored five nuclear alarms — and bet the world on a hunch.
On September 26, 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov watched his screen light up with five inbound American nuclear missiles. His training, his system, and his orders all told him to report a strike. He called it a malfunction. He was right — but he didn't know that at the time. This is the story of the loneliest decision in human history, and the invisible systems failure that almost ended civilisation.
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