It was a moment the world never knew it survived. In the tense Cold War atmosphere of 1983, one false alarm nearly led to the ...

The World Wars, the moon landing, the invention of the internet, the fall of empires, and civil rights revolutions — history ...

When alarms began to ring and a control panel flashed in front of Stanislav Petrov, a 44-year-old lieutenant colonel seated in a secret bunker south of Moscow, it appeared that the world was less ...

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer known in the West as “the man who saved the world” for his role in averting a nuclear war over a false missile warning at the height of the ...

It was in that nerve-racking atmosphere that Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov faced what may well have been one of the most momentous decisions in human history. Ensconced in his bunker ...

Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer monitoring an early warning system from a bunker outside Moscow on Sept. 26, 1983, when the radar screen suddenly appeared to depict a missile inbound from ...

Col. Stanislav Petrov, that it could say with “high reliability” that an American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) had been launched and was headed toward the Soviet Union.

A week ago, news emerged that Col. Stanislav Petrov had died in May. Petrov was sometimes called “the man who saved the world” because, in 1983, as the officer in charge of a Soviet early warning ...

Stanislav Petrov: ''I knew perfectly well that nobody would be able to correct my mistake if I had made one'' Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear ...

To the editor: As nuclear tensions rise between the U.S. and North Korea, it is important to note the passing of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian military officer who in 1983 averted a nuclear war ...

Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces, and his job was to monitor his country's satellite system, which was looking for any possible nuclear weapons ...