Let's not forget Stanislav Petrov- the Russian colonel who might have saved us from nuclear war

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January 14, 2020, 12:24 PM

RogB

Let's not forget Stanislav Petrov- the Russian colonel who might have saved us from nuclear war

He went against military orders, a decision that might have saved millions of lives

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/...-petrov-soviet-union

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January 14, 2020, 12:43 PM

Sig2340

And Colonel Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky of the GRU.

ETA:

Major General Dmitri Fyodorovich Polyakov of the KGB, too.

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January 14, 2020, 01:24 PM

GWbiker

Don't forget Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet navy officer, who was in a nuclear submarine near Cuba in October 1962 and refused to order the firing of a Nuclear torpedo at a US warship.

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