The man who avoided world War 3.
didyoueverhear·Did You Ever Hear?byLarry Martin Did you knowThe man who avoided world War 3.View original on lemmy.world60Comments12Reply
wwheres_my_pinata lemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesNaval officer, not army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov21Reply
Kit Sorens replylemmy.dbzer0.com1Hide 1 replyAlso not a bomb. A short range nuclear torpedo or SRBM depending on which source you pull from. Most likely the former.7Reply
MMadison420 replylemmy.worldThere should be a petition to name a ship after him for the service to humanity and maybe a bit because Russia will spontaneously combust in anger.3Reply
Flying Squid lemmy.worldAnother hero who averted WWIII in 1983 when he refused to believe an early warning system and went against protocol was Stanislav Petrov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov19Reply
ggivesomefucks lemmy.world2Hide 2 repliesThere was a couple times a Russian was supposed to "push the button" and didn't. And probably a lot more that aren't common knowledge. Sometimes they thought it was a bug, sometimes they thought just Russia being obliterated was better than the whole world.14Reply
nnullptr replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replySoviet Union* Poland, Ukraine and Baltic States would be obliterated too-1Reply
ggivesomefucks replylemmy.worldNah, if anything I probably over estimated. The incidents I've heard about was all false reports of a single nuke coming to Russia. And the operator who's procedures required them to launch a counter strike just didn't do it. No country is dumb enough to start nuclear Armageddon with a single nuke. It's kind of an "all or nothing" thing, so a single nuke is likely a glitch.4Reply
MMajorHavoc lemmy.worldA legendary hero for our times. There's a wisdom in being willing to just wait another minute and then another when there's no obvious good options.4Reply
aawwwyissss lemm.eePretty great that the Soviet Union almost caused a global apocalypse several times.3Reply
Limitless_screaming replykbin.socialYou don't think that the super power would have sat there, silently watching the nukes coming towards them right?1Reply
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Naval officer, not army.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
Thanks 😇
Also not a bomb. A short range nuclear torpedo or SRBM depending on which source you pull from. Most likely the former.
There should be a petition to name a ship after him for the service to humanity and maybe a bit because Russia will spontaneously combust in anger.
Another hero who averted WWIII in 1983 when he refused to believe an early warning system and went against protocol was Stanislav Petrov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
There was a couple times a Russian was supposed to "push the button" and didn't. And probably a lot more that aren't common knowledge.
Sometimes they thought it was a bug, sometimes they thought just Russia being obliterated was better than the whole world.
Soviet Union*
Poland, Ukraine and Baltic States would be obliterated too
Nah, if anything I probably over estimated.
The incidents I've heard about was all false reports of a single nuke coming to Russia.
And the operator who's procedures required them to launch a counter strike just didn't do it.
No country is dumb enough to start nuclear Armageddon with a single nuke. It's kind of an "all or nothing" thing, so a single nuke is likely a glitch.
A legendary hero for our times.
There's a wisdom in being willing to just wait another minute and then another when there's no obvious good options.
Didn't exist in the fallout universe tho
Pretty great that the Soviet Union almost caused a global apocalypse several times.
You don't think that the super power would have sat there, silently watching the nukes coming towards them right?