So did or not Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov accomplish the feat?
In New York, at the headquarters of the United Nations, a retired lieutenant colonel was awarded a crystal statuette "A Hand Holding a Globe" engraved with the inscription "A Man Who Prevented an Atomic Catastrophe."
According to the president of the association Douglas Mattern, 26 of September 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Petrov, while serving as an operational duty officer at the command post of the Serpukhov-15 air defense missile attack warning system, decided to ignore the readings of automation on the launch of five American ballistic missiles from the United States towards the USSR Minuteman missiles with ten nuclear warheads each. Screens blinked, an inscription appeared on the map display: "Rocket attack!". All data was immediately rechecked - no signs of error. And then Petrov accomplished not a military, but a human feat - despite all the evidence of electronics, with his power he declared the alarm false. And it turned out to be right: the warning system failed.
Approximately a couple of years ago, Petrov told American journalists who were trying to find out from which base the Russian satellite spotted the start. "
At the end of May, 2004, according to Trud, the representatives of the American Association came to Moscow specifically to thank Petrov and give him a memorial sign "Honorary Citizen of the World" and a prize of ... a thousand dollars.
RIA correspondent "News"asked Stanislav Petrov in New York: was he awarded or punished for his deed at that time?
Incidentally, the former night of 83 and Petrov himself was declassified by his former chief, Colonel-General Votintsev, telling Western journalists about this. And it started - articles in the most famous foreign publications, television, trips. In Europe, Stanislav Evgrafovich was once driven by a certain Karl, a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, who is known to be the owner of a funeral home network.
The Labor correspondent contacted the UN headquarters in New York and asked the representatives of the information center about the Association of World Citizens. To our surprise, little is known about such an organization.
Military reviewer comment
Therefore, it is not surprising that the well-known Russian expert in the field of strategic nuclear forces, missile defense and military space, in 1993-2001, the head of the 4-th Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense, Major-General Vladimir Dvorkin was brief in the comments:
Lead Research Fellow of the IMEMO RAN, Major General (Ret.) Vladimir Belous, believes that this is political speculation, one of those that arise in the West every time they try there once again to exacerbate the issue of the “Russian military threat” and the need to strengthen control over our nuclear forces. Something similar, according to Belous, happened in 1995 year. Then our systems recorded a sudden launch of the American research ballistic missile from the Norwegian island of Andoj. The warning about starting to Russia was supposedly sent, but it did not reach the addressee. The signal from the EWS system passed to the President of Russia, but there was no preparation for a retaliatory nuclear strike. With the incident quickly figured out. Nevertheless, in the West they immediately began to talk about the fact that the world through the fault of Moscow was again on the brink of precipice.
Opinion of the eyewitness (served from 1976 to 1988 for a year, first as an engineer, then as a senior engineer-chief of the combat crew, retired major Klintsov):
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