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	Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer September 26, 1983, at a military satellite surveillance site south of Moscow, Russia.
		It was Petrov’s responsibility to observe the satellite early warning network and notify his superiors of any impending nuclear missile attacks from the United States against the Soviet Union.
		In the end, Petrov was neither praised nor punished by the Soviet military, although he was criticized for not keeping logbook entries as the incident unfolded (he responded by asking how that would have been possible, since he had a telephone in one hand and an intercom in the other).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislav_Petrov (1165 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Cold War Report
		As Petrov described it in an interview, one of the Soviet satellites sent a signal to the bunker that a nuclear missile attack was underway.
		Petrov was situated at a critical point in the chain of command, overseeing a staff that monitored incoming signals from the satellites.
		Petrov, who was assigned to the satellite early-warning system at its inception in the 1970s, said in the interview that he knew the system had flaws.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/coldwar/shatter021099b.htm (998 words)

	Five Minutes to Save the World
		Petrov to New York City to film interviews, his speech in the United Nations, which was held in Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, and at other famous landmarks in the Big Apple to complete the film.
		Petrov believed in his gut and hoping with all that is sacred, that contrary to what the high tech equipment was reporting, this alarm was an error.
		The interview with Walter Cronkite and Stanislav Petrov was an unforgettable scene with the doors closed and the office crowded with the movie crew filming the event, and with the conversation between the two men lasting for about 25 uninterrupted minutes.
	www.expertclick.com /NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=11534 (1019 words)

	The My Hero Project - Stanislav PetrovStanislav_Petrov
		Because of Stanislav Petrov’s actions that day in 1983, the Earth was spared what could have become the most devastating tragedy in the history of humanity.
		Stanislav Petrov has said he does not regard himself as a hero for what he did that day.
		Stanislav Petrov was not originally scheduled to be on duty that night.
	myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=Stanislav_Petrov (906 words)

	stanislav petrov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stanislav Petrov was charged with verifying and reporting missile launches as potential attacks on the Soviet Union.
		Petrov was later investigated for his conduct during the incident.
		Colonel Petrov was taken to the hospital for stress and later discharged from the military.
	www.star-cs.com /peterstar/petrov.html (1520 words)

	How Col. Stanislav Petrov Saved The World From John Hallam FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign
		On 26 September 1983, Colonel Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer at the Russian satellite surveillance facility of Serpukhov-15, outside Moscow.
		Petrov had, however, an IT background, and 'a feeling in my gut' that this was a false alarm.
		Col Stanislav Petrov's story shows the wisdom of the Canberra Commissions recommendation made in 1996, that strategic nuclear weapons be removed from LoW status.
	www.rense.com /general42/saved.htm (1364 words)

	Lost In The Fallout - Starsiege:2845 Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Petrov's computer was demanding that he follow the prescribed protocol and confirm an incoming attack to his superiors.
		Petrov had written the emergency protocol himself, and he knew he should immediately pick up the hot line at his desk to tell his superiors that the Motherland was under attack.
		Petrov, who'd gone through the crisis with an intercom to his staff in one hand and the telephone to his bosses in the other, was later reprimanded for not filling out his logbook as events unfolded.
	www.starsiege2845.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=6943 (1228 words)

	The Moscow News
		Stanislav Petrov, now in retirement, is tired of talk about the "forgotten hero of the Cold War." He simply did his duty, he says.
		Petrov was not a regular T/O operations duty officer at the BMEWS command and control post.
		Stanislav Petrov did not even go to the polls because of his bad legs - either in December 2003 or in March 2004 although he had wanted to.
	english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2004-17-23 (1556 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Ex-Soviet officer honored for prudence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stanislav Petrov was in charge of the Soviet Union's early warning system when the system wrongly signaled the launch of a U.S. Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile in September 1983.
		Petrov had to decide within 20 minutes whether the report was accurate and whether he should launch missiles in retaliation, the Vlast magazine reported in 1998.
		Petrov decided the alarm was false and did not launch a retaliatory strike.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/05/21/ex_soviet_officer_honored_for_prudence?mode=PF (308 words)

	Almost A Nuclear War.
		As Petrov described it, one of the Soviet satellites sent a signal to the bunker that a nuclear missile attack was underway.
		Petrov, who was assigned to the satellite early-warning system at its inception in the 70s, said he knew the system had flaws.
		According to Petrov and other sources, the false alarm was traced to the satellite, which picked up the sun's reflection off the tops of clouds and mistook it for a missile launch.
	members.fortunecity.com /info_kru/nwar.htm (908 words)

	The Man Who Save the World : Stanislav Petrov - Boneyard Evansville Baburnich Magazine vanderburgh history
		Stanislav Petrov was a Soviet army officer monitoring the satellite system for signs of a U.S. attack, the year was 1983, and his instructions, if he detected missiles targeting the Soviet Union, were to push the button and launch a counter-offensive.
		It was specially constructed in such a way that no one could affect the system’s operations.” All that was up to Petrov was analyzing the available information and either saying the alarm was false or giving the computer the go-ahead, as per the directive he himself wrote.
		Twenty-one years later, Petrov, surviving on a tiny army pension in a small town outside of Moscow, is being honored for his decision by the San Francisco-based Association of World Citizens.
	www.evansville.net /user/boneyard/petrov.htm (928 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| 'How I stopped nuclear war'
		On the night of 26 September 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a young army software engineer, was on duty at a surveillance centre near Moscow.
		Petrov's orders were to pass the information up the chain of command, to the then General Secretary, Yuri Andropov.
		Petrov's decision to disobey procedure was intuitive; "The thought crossed my mind that maybe someone had really launched a strike against us.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/198173.stm (372 words)

	Stanislav Petrov Averts a Worldwide Nuclear War - Article - Bright Star Sound
		Petrov the word “Start” was flashing in bright lettering, presumably the instruction indicating the Soviet Union must begin launching a massive counterstrike against the United States.
		Petrov had a gnawing feeling the computer system was wrong, he had no way of knowing for sure.
		Had Stanislav Petrov declared the warning valid, as his computers indicated, the Soviet leadership likely would have taken his decision as fact.
	www.brightstarsound.com /world_hero/article.html (1183 words)

	Global Disaster Averted by a Forgotten Hero of Our Time
		For several minutes Petrov held a phone in one hand and an intercom in the other as alarms continued blaring, red lights blinking, and the computers reporting that U.S. missiles were on their way.
		Petrov’s superiors were reprimanded for the computer error, and in the Soviet system, all in the group were automatically subjected to the same treatment.
		At the close of the Dateline NBC interview with Stanislav Petrov on Nov. 12, 2000, anchor Stone Phillips said, “Some of you may be wondering just how verifiable this story is. Well, a former CIA official we spoke to told us it is confirmed by Russian and other sources and that he believes it.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0923-11.htm (1094 words)

	Stan the Man
		Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov backed his own judgment against the computer screens telling him the U.S. had launched a massive strike against his country.
		Petrov should have been praised to the skies by a grateful world.
		Petrov knew his equipment was not 100 per cent reliable.
	www.skysurfer.co.uk /stan_the_man.htm (586 words)

	False alarm, nuclear danger -- by Geoffrey Forden, Pavel Podvig and Theodore A. Postol
		Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in command of an early-warning bunker south of Moscow shortly after midnight on 26 September 1983.
		Petrov's center was charged with validating any warnings of a surprise nuclear attack that those satellites might generate.
		It is unclear what launch authority arrangements were in place at that time, but it appears that Petrov was under pressure to take some form of action in response to the alert.
	www.armscontrol.ru /start/publications/petrov.htm (1024 words)

	Stanislav Petrov Averts a Worldwide Nuclear War - Bright Star Sound
		That interview, in addition to other highlights of Stanislav Petrov’s trip to the United States, will be included in a documentary, The Man Who Saved the World, which is being produced by the Danish motion picture company Statement Film.
		Stanislav Petrov was in the United States Jan. 14-28, participating in many meetings and interviews.
		In a motion passed by the Senate in the Parliament of Australia June 23, 2004, Stanislav Petrov was commended for his actions in averting what could have become a worldwide nuclear war in 1983.
	www.brightstarsound.com (512 words)

	Navy Times - News - More News.
		Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in charge of the Soviet Union’s early warning system in September 1983, when the system wrongly signaled the launch of a U.S. Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile.
		Petrov had less than 20 minutes to decide whether the report was accurate and whether he should launch missiles in retaliation, according to an article published by the Vlast magazine in 1998.
		Under his own authority, Petrov decided the alarm was false and did not begin a retaliatory attack.
	www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-2940299.php (279 words)

	[Imc-sydney-content] Col. Stanislav Petrov Saves the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the midst of this horrific chaos and terror, the prospect of the end of civilization itself, Petrov made an historic decision not to alert higher authorities, believing in his gut and hoping with all that is sacred, that contrary to what all the sophisticated equipment was reporting, this alarm was an error.
		In the Daily Mail interview, Petrov said,=93After it was over, I drank half a liter of vodka as if it were only a glass, and slept for 28 hours,=94 and he commented, =93In principle, a nuclear war could have broken out.
		In the case of Colonel Petrov, he was dismissed from the Army on a pension that in succeeding years would prove nearly worthless.
	lists.cat.org.au /pipermail/imc-sydney-content/2003-September/001231.html (1245 words)

	War & Peace - Tribute to Petrov at UN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the night of September 26, 1983, Petrov was duty officer at Serpukhov, the Soviet Union’s main nuclear command and control center monitoring incoming signals from satellites.
		Petrov’s duty was to report the apparent attack to command headquarters to initiate an immediate counter attack.
		In the midst of the chaos created by the attack warnings Petrov, convinced that the alarm must be false, made an historic decision not to alert higher authorities.
	www.warpeace.org /article.php?story=20060117171158724 (547 words)

	Retired Russian colonel Stanislav Petrov receives World Citizen Award
		Stanislav Petrov, 44, looking down from his mezzanine desk to the gymnasium-sized main floor filled with military officers and technicians charged with monitoring any U.S. missiles and retaliating instantly.
		Petrov was highly aware that Cold War tensions were acute, as USSR fighters had shot down a Korean airliner on Sept. 1.
		Petrov recalls his legs were "like cotton," as they say in Russian.
	www.nuclear-free.com /english/petrov.htm (512 words)

	The Red Button & the Man Who Saved the World - a documentary film by Slawomir Grunberg - Log In Productions - ...
		By pressing the red button, Petrov would have sent the information up the chain of command to Jurij Votincev, the Commander in Chief of the Russian missile defense, and then to Jurij Andropov who was in charge of the new ‘nuclear suitcase’ and who would have undoubtedly call for a counterattack.
		In Petrov's case, it was actually a relatively new Soviet satellite system that falsely indicated that nuclear annihilation was imminent.
		Although Petrov's action was the right one at the time, according to Dr. Bruce Blair of the US Center for Defense in Washington DC, his logic was not necessarily correct because one of the US's plans was to launch just a few missiles to confuse the enemy.
	www.logtv.com /films/redbutton/index.htm (1155 words)

	The Man Who Saved the World Finally Recognized - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Petrov reported the alarm to his superiors and declared it false.
		Votintsev raced to the command post and was the first to hear Petrov’s story after the incident.
		Petrov himself tells a different story — although at first he was praised for his actions, he found himself slighted and picked on after the warning system was meticulously dissected and many bugs were found.
	www.mosnews.com /feature/2004/05/21/petrov.shtml (1213 words)

	cbs2.com - Crisis! Evacuate!
		Stanislav Petrov was a Soviet Army Lt. Col that worked at the Russian version of NORAD (called Serpukhov-15).
		Petrov had only a few minutes to decide if this was an American first strike move or his computer systems were giving him false info.
		Petrov decided it must be a mistake and cancelled the Soviet nuclear response.
	cbs2.com /newsdesk/local_blogentry_056015805.html (760 words)

	Common Ground - July 2005 - Stanislav Petrov saves world - Unspun heroes 1
		Petrov was not the regular duty officer at the bunker.
		At the time, Petrov was not at all convinced he had acted correctly by not pressing the button, or by not passing the report up to superiors.
		Petrov responded that he had a phone in one hand, for reporting the situation up the command chain, and an intercom in the other, for issuing commands to subordinates.
	www.commonground.ca /iss/0507168/cg168_unspun.shtml (2297 words)

	The Peace Blog » Near-Accidental Annihilation - The Story of Colonel Petrov
		It took place on the night of September 26, 1983, when Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, which was the Soviet Union’s main nuclear command and control center.
		Colonel Petrov was in charge of 200 men with the responsibility of monitoring incoming signals from satellites.
		In the midst of this horrific chaos and terror, the prospect of the end of civilization itself, Petrov made an historic decision not to alert higher authorities, believing in his gut and hoping with all that is sacred, that contrary to what the high tech equipment was reporting, this alarm was an error.
	www.peace-action.org /PeaceBlog/wordpress/?p=100 (846 words)

	Thank Stanislav Petrov Day \| Cosmic Variance
		Stanislav Evgrafovich Petrov is arguably the most influential person who ever lived, although I had never heard of him until seeing this post on Cynical-C and this tribute.
		Lieutenant Colonel Petrov was the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow with the responsibility of alerting Soviet command if there was any indication that the U.S. had launched a nuclear missile strike against the U.S.S.R. The response, of course, would be massive retaliation, and the deaths of many millions of people.
		Petrov’s action but failing to see the benefits you are enjoying owing to Jesus’ teaching and the consequences of His action.
	cosmicvariance.com /2006/04/15/thank-stanislav-petrov-day (6410 words)

	Badass of the Week: Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stanislav Petrov was the ranking officer at a critical Soviet nuclear missile delivery silo in the early 1980's.
		Russian leaders then flipped out and gave Col. Petrov the order to launch all of the nuclear weapons at his disposal immediately and wipe the planet clean of Capitalists for the rest of eternity.
		Petrov is a perfect example of laziness and procrastination paying off big time.
	www.amazingben.com /arf0046.html (230 words)

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