See soorce fer Stanislav Petrov

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|name = Stanislav Petrov
|image = Stanislaw Jewgrafowitsch Petrow, Dresden 2013.jpg
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|caption = Petrov receivin the Dresden Prize in 2013
|birth_name = Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov
|birth_date = {{birth date|1939|9|7|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Vladivostok]], [[Soviet Union]]<br />{{small|(nou Vladivostok, [[Roushie]])}}
|death_date = Mey 19, 2017 (aged 77)
|death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Roushie]] 
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|known_for = [[1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident]]
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|allegiance = {{flagu|Soviet Union}}
|branch = [[Soviet Air Defense Forces]]
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|rank = [[Lieutenant colonel]]
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{{Eastern Slavic name|Yevgrafovich|Petrov}}
'''Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov''' ({{lang-ru|Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в}}; born 7 September 1939 in [[Vladivostok]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2013/02/26/4981721.shtml|title="Children were told, their father had a difficult job" (rus.)|publisher=}}</ref>; died 19 Mey 2017) wis a retired [[lieutenant colonel]] o the [[Soviet Air Defence Forces]]. 

On September 26, 1983, juist three weeks efter the Soviet military haed shot doun [[Korean Air Lines Flicht 007]], Petrov wis the duty officer at the command centre for the [[Oko]] nuclear early-waurnin seestem when the seestem reportit that a missile, follaed bi anither ane an then up tae five mair, war bein launched frae the Unitit States. Petrov judged the report tae be a [[false alarm]],<ref name="AWC">{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcitizens.org/petrov2.html | title=The Man Who Saved the World Finally Recognized | publisher=Association of World Citizens | accessdate=June 7, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721000030/http://www.worldcitizens.org/petrov2.html |archivedate=July 21, 2011 }}</ref> an his decision is creditit wi haein preventit an erroneous [[Mutual assured destruction|retaliatory nuclear attack]] on the [[Unitit States]] an its [[NATO]] allies that could hae resulted in lairge-scale [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]]. Investigation later confirmed that the satellite waurnin seestem haed indeed malfunctioned.<ref>{{cite news |first=Tony |last=Long |newspaper=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |title=The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing |url=http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/09/dayintech_0926 |date=September 26, 2007 |accessdate=December 1, 2011}}</ref>

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