EPISODE · Dec 4, 2019 · 5 MIN
The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
from Retropod · host The Washington Post
In 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union’s Air Defense Forces, trusted his gut and averted a global nuclear catastrophe.
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