On this day in 1983 the world almost ended in nuclear holocaust when the Soviet Air Defence Forces' early warning system detected five incoming ICBMs, potentially triggering retaliatory strikes, but for lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov's critical decisions to await corroborating evidence rather than forward the alerts up the chain of command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-World/dp/B07DVVKFTW