In 1983 the period of detente had come to an end. The new president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, had referred to the Soviet Union as an ‘evil empire’ and commissioned the construction of the ...
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One man ignored a nuclear launch alert and stopped World War 3
On September 26, 1983, Soviet early warning systems reported incoming US nuclear missiles. Protocol demanded immediate ...
A little-known incident in 1983 might have pushed the world over the brink and into nuclear war if not for one man. Soviet citizen Stanislav Petrov received warnings of a U.S. nuclear attack, but his ...
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