The night the world almost ended - BBC REEL

Описание к видео The night the world almost ended - BBC REEL

On a September night in 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov stood guard at a satellite-based missile launch detection system. When the alarm went off, announcing that the US had attacked, Petrov had thirty minutes to decide whether the launch was real or false.

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