—u/AustinJG
“This event could easily have resulted in the highest casualties in the shortest time period in human history. Actually, forget human history, the greatest mass death since the extinction of the dinosaurs. One man was at the helm making that decision, and it seems like one of the few points in human history where by some slim sliver of luck or fate, a great disaster was averted.
Time travel vibes like whoa.”
—u/deleted
“Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world. He only died in 2017. They should have given him the Nobel Peace Prize.”