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Apr 11, 2019 14 min

192 False Alarm

from The Weird History Podcast Hosted by Joe Streckert

In 1983 a Soviet satellite system erroneously detected five incoming American nuclear missiles. Stanislav Petrov, the man tasked with reporting the alert to the USSR’s leadership, suddenly had a dire choice: He could do his duty and start a nuclear […]

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