2026-06-05
The screen is not always right
You need to thank one man for your current existence – a Russian. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the Soviet command bunker for early warning satellites. Just weeks after serious NATO actions, his Oko satellite system reported that the United States had launched five intercontinental ballistic missiles from Montana. Against all protocol, Petrov reasoned that a genuine American first strike would involve hundreds of missiles, not five, and that the lack of supporting ground radar data indicated a false alarm. He decided not to report the attack up the chain of command to
