In his column, ‘As I Please’ (PN 2600–2601), Bruce Kent mentions Stanislaus Petrov, who saved us all from nuclear war by refusing to believe the evidence on his computer of a US nuclear attack on Russia – and was reprimanded for it!
The story is one of several in Jim McCluskey’s booklet The Nuclear Threat, Intolerable and Avoidable Accidents, Misjudgements, and Mega Foul-ups, published in 2009.
I have a dozen copies and would love to give them away! Just write and ask me for one. (Irene Gill, 38 Yarnells Hill, Oxford OX2 9BE)
Topics: Nuclear weapons