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The man who saved the world from nuclear war died

On September 14, it became known that Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who in 1983 could have ordered an atomic strike on US territory, died in his apartment in the Moscow region, but, having understood the situation, did not do this and, in fact, saved the world from nuclear war. Petrov was one of the main heroes of the Cold War, books were written about him, films were made, he was awarded at the UN headquarters, but he met his death in complete oblivion. Petrov died back in May 2017, but the press became aware of his death four months later and quite by accident - his long-term acquaintance from Germany, who is still grateful to Petrov for preventing a nuclear war, found out about this.

The story of how one person, in fact, saved the planet, said the publication “Medusa".

On the night of September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer at the command post of the missile attack warning system in the secret part of Serpukhov-15 in the Moscow region. In 0: 15, the computer gave the signal that the Soviet military most feared: a ballistic missile was launched from the US, and its target was the USSR. According to the instructions, Petrov had to immediately report this to the leadership and receive an order for a return start, but he did not do this, feeling that something was wrong.

“The machine shows that the reliability of the information is highest. There are big red letters on the wall: “START”. This means the rocket definitely went off. I looked at my combat crew. Some even jumped out of their seats. He raised his voice and ordered them to immediately take their positions. I had to check everything. It couldn’t be that this is actually a missile with warheads,” Petrov recalled in his interview “Komsomolskaya Pravda".

Since the launch of the missile by the enemy, the leadership of the Soviet Union had no more than 28 minutes to make a decision on the response launch. Personally, Petrov had 15 minutes to make the right decision. He doubted that the United States decided to launch a nuclear strike on the USSR, since it had previously been instructed that during a real attack, the missiles should have been launched from several bases. As a result, Petrov reported on government communications that the computer crashed. Later it turned out that the Soviet sensors took the light of the sun rays, reflecting from the clouds, for the launch of the American rocket.

They wanted to encourage Petrov, promised to even give the order, but instead reprimanded for an unfilled battle magazine. In 1984, he retired, the incident in Serpukhov-15 was a state secret until 1993, even Petrova’s wife did not know anything about that duty.

In September 1998, the undertaker by profession and political activist Karl Schumacher from the German town Oberhausen read in the newspaper BILD note about Petrov.

“It said that the man who prevented a nuclear war lives in a poor Fryazino apartment, the pension is not enough for life, and his wife died of cancer,” said Schumacher.

Therefore, he decided to invite Petrov to his place. Schumacher wanted him to talk about that Cold War episode to the Germans. Petrov responded to the offer and gave an interview to one of the TV channels in Germany, several newspapers also wrote about him.

Later, the story picked up the world's largest media. Now Petrov’s duty is considered one of the main and symbolic episodes of the Cold War — along with the visit to the USSR by American schoolgirl Samantha Smith in 1983 or the first talks of CPSU Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan in 1985 – 1986.

His story was described in detail in David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand, one of the major world works on the Cold War.

19 January 2006 at the UN headquarters in New York Stanislav Petrov was presented with a crystal figurine with the inscription: "The man who prevented a nuclear war" - in the form of a hand holding the globe.

17 February 2013 of the year he won the Dresden Prize, awarded for the prevention of armed conflict. Of the citizens of Russia, only Mikhail Gorbachev received it in 2010.

In the 2014 year came the artistic and documentary film "The man who saved the world." Petrov said that the actor Kevin Costner, who played in this film, sent him a money transfer to 500 dollars and thanks for not raising a nuclear-powered missile to the air.

Petrov always said that he did not save the world, or else the duty was just a difficult working episode.

Stanislav Petrov died 19 May 2017 of the year. This was not reported by any major Russian or foreign media.

Karl Schumacher found out about his death by accident. He called Petrov every year on September 7 to congratulate him on his birthday, but this time Petrov’s son reported that his father passed away - and this happened back in May.

Schumacher published an obituary in his блогеand 14 September it Article Memory Petrova published a newspaper WAZ - one of the largest regional editions of Germany. Then Schumacher went to Petrov’s Russian-language page on Wikipedia and added the date of death.

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