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23rd Anniversary of Saving the World

¶ September 27, 2006 by Rob Friesel

Via /.: 23 years ago today, Soviet Missle Commander Stanislav Petrov saved the world by refusing to believe that the United States had launched a concerted nuclear attack against The Mother Country.

Nice going, man.

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