who saved the world?

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Apparently, one man, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, literally saved the ass of everybody in the first and second worlds, and didn't even get a T-shirt.

Thanks to Jonathan Schwarz at This Modern World for the information.
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Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that.

If somebody has his address we could send him the t-shirt.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

It's an amazing story. Sometimes I think the things we don't know about that have happened or are happening would scare us to death.

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

We need to send it to George Bush, because he's Texan, sort of, and the whole concept of "Keep the peace, get drunk" would be somewhere along his brain. Right?

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

In the "small world" department: the sister that Jonathan Schwarz refers to in passing in that article is my long-time SO. (I should ask her whether they really had a hobby of measuring blast radii.)

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Katie says she's sure that she never drew concentric circles on maps of Washington DC, and that if Jon did she didn't notice.