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Stanislav Petrov
09/07/1939 | Vladivostok, Russia | Male | 05/19/2017 (77 years old)
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: ????????´? ?????´????? ?????´?; born c. 1939) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, he was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile was being launched from the United States. Petrov judged the report to be a false alarm, and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the satellite warning system had malfunctioned.