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 ...

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 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.

Stanislav Petrov was born on September 7, 1939, in Vladivostok, Russia. His family was military—his father was a fighter pilot in World War II, and his mother was a nurse.

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 ...

It was September 26, 1983. Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was on duty at Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker outside Moscow. His job: to monitor Oko ...

At every global summit, “peace” is the headline. Nations sign declarations, speak of harmony, and pledge stability. Yet, ...

In 1983, Stanislav Petrov “saved the world”. At the height of the Cold War, Lieutenant-Colonel Petrov was the duty officer at a Russian nuclear missile facility when the early warning system ...

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 ...

Stanislav Petrov was assigned to the Soviet Union’s Strategic Rocket Forces, monitoring American and NATO activity regarding ballistic missile launches. On Sept. 26, 1983, he was about to make a ...