But Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet duty officer, chose reason over panic. This is the powerful, lesser-known story of how one man’s judgment saved millions - if not all of humanity. A ‘politically ...

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 ...

Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was on duty that night. While many believed the launch to be a genuine retaliation from the US, he kept a cool head. Despite three warnings of an imminent ...

In 2014, a famous xkcd comic strip titled Tasks depicted someone asking a developer to create an app that, when a user takes a photo, will check whether the user is in a national park (deemed easy ...

Stanislav Petrov, once a colonel in the Soviet Army, died 19 May at his home in a small town near Moscow. Petrov was working at a secret bunker called Serpukhov-15 near Moscow at the height of the ...

XKCD, the sarcastic webcomic revered by science and tech geeks, is now the butt of someone else's joke. Hackers breached the forum of the 14-year old site, stealing over 560,000 usernames, emails ...

XKCD forum, the bulletin board associated with the popular webcomic XKCD, has been taken offline after personal information of more than 562,000 members was exposed online. According to security ...

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 working as an officer at a secret command base in Moscow in 1983 when he dismissed an incoming missile warning as a false alarm. The investigation which followed proved he was ...

Ex-Soviet colonel Stanislav Petrov was hailed as hero for dismissing an incoming missile warning in 1983 as a false alarm A FORMER Soviet colonel credited with averting all-out nuclear war between ...