Retired Russian Colonel Stanislav Petrov
Soviet Officer Wins Award for Preventing Nuclear War -- RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) – A retired Soviet lieutenant colonel whose self-control prevented a nuclear war from being triggered by a long-classified accident in 1983 was named on Friday a recipient of a German anti-war prize.
Stanislav Petrov, 73, won the fourth Dresden-Preis (Dresden Prize), which comes complete with a check for 25,000 euro ($32,000), prize organizers said on their website, Friendsofdresden-deutschland.com.
The prize is to be bestowed at a ceremony in Dresden on Feb. 17, the anniversary of the Dresden bombing in 1945, the organizers said.
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My Comment: Life is always very strange. A retired officer who now lives the simple life of a pensioner .... but .... his 15 minutes of fame ended up saving hundreds of millions (if not billions) of lives. His name is only known by a few, but the world owes him a debt a gratitude that will be remembered for all time.
For more info on the incident that could have plunged the world into nuclear war, go here.