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Russian officer credited for averting nuclear war passes away

In 1983, Col. Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Airforce detected what he believed to be a full-scale U.S. nuclear strike on the Soviet Union. What he did next may have saved the lives of everyone in his country and possibly the world.

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