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This is another interesting story about a Russian who may have saved the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stani

by guantes 13y ago

This is another interesting story about a Russian who may have saved the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
Yup in 1983. Thanks to both of them. Petrov is still alive, so you can send him a Hallmark card if you're over 30 and glad to be alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
- enraged_camel 13y ago
  Or if you are under 30 and glad to have been born. :)
- mietek 13y ago
  Do you have his address?
  - fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
    The thread is two years old, but it is a start. Let me know if you have any luck. BTW, someone in the Reddit thread points out that cash sent through the mail _will_ be stolen, so if anyone wanted to send him money, we'd have to me more clever about it. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dkear/can_anyone_find_the_address_for_stanislav/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dkear/can_anyone_...
ucarion 13y ago
There's a pretty extensive (if unrealistic) online alternative history around this incident: http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday
ra 13y ago
It's said that Able Archer 83 was the turning point in US thinking on the cold war. Before this exercise Reagan actually believed that the USSR thought the US was too good and wholesome to ever launch a first strike. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
rfrey 13y ago
If the Wikipedia article is accurate, that is one wonderfully humble man.
smsm42 13y ago
Yes, when I first read the story I was kind of scared when thinking what could happen if he would just think "my duty is to pass the warning, higher ups would sort it out". Now of course everybody says "we'd caught it up anyway", but who knows what would actually happen.

by guantes 13y ago

This is another interesting story about a Russian who may have saved the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago

Yup in 1983. Thanks to both of them. Petrov is still alive, so you can send him a Hallmark card if you're over 30 and glad to be alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

enraged_camel 13y ago
Or if you are under 30 and glad to have been born. :)
mietek 13y ago
Do you have his address?
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
  The thread is two years old, but it is a start. Let me know if you have any luck. BTW, someone in the Reddit thread points out that cash sent through the mail _will_ be stolen, so if anyone wanted to send him money, we'd have to me more clever about it. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dkear/can_anyone_find_the_address_for_stanislav/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dkear/can_anyone_...

ucarion 13y ago

There's a pretty extensive (if unrealistic) online alternative history around this incident: http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday

ra 13y ago

It's said that Able Archer 83 was the turning point in US thinking on the cold war. Before this exercise Reagan actually believed that the USSR thought the US was too good and wholesome to ever launch a first strike. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

rfrey 13y ago

If the Wikipedia article is accurate, that is one wonderfully humble man.

smsm42 13y ago

Yes, when I first read the story I was kind of scared when thinking what could happen if he would just think "my duty is to pass the warning, higher ups would sort it out". Now of course everybody says "we'd caught it up anyway", but who knows what would actually happen.