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    Who was awarded in 2004 for not starting a nuclear war 21 years earlier?

    Question #59261. Asked by gmackematix. (Sep 08 05 5:20 PM)


    lanfranco

    How about retired Russian Army Colonel Stanislav Petrov?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

    Sep 08 05, 6:28 PM
    gmackematix

    Yay Frankie! No wonder there was a lot of concern about nuclear attack in 1983/4 (see "War Games", "Threads", "When the Wind Blows", "Two Tribes"). If we had known just how close we came...

    Sep 08 05, 11:36 PM


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