‘Man who saved the world’ from nuclear war dies at 77

Stanislav Petrov

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer known in the West as “the man who saved the world” for his role in averting a nuclear war over a false missile warning at the height of the Cold War, has died at 77.

CBC | World News

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