Pity that this important event was so poorly presented in this documentary. It was so garbled up that I doubt that many people will bother to look at it and learn from it. Stanislav Petrov's action was not kindly looked upon by his superiors and he became a displaced and forgotten person afterwards.
This is the second time that a Russian military man has saved the world. Two decades earlier during the Cuban crisis, a nuclear submariner was ordered to use its weaponry to break the American blockage from stopping Russian ships reaching Cuba to deliver an arsenal of nuclear missiles. He refused to do so and after some tense days, the Kremlin backed down and the crisis was averted. The known hero of that day was President J F Kennedy.
Stanislav Petrov, the unsung hero of this documentary said a nuclear disaster will happen someday. This tortured soul will fortunately not experience it. He died in 2017 aged 77.
This documentary only gets my rating of 4 for its poor presentation, but the story behind it is worth a solid 10.
This is the second time that a Russian military man has saved the world. Two decades earlier during the Cuban crisis, a nuclear submariner was ordered to use its weaponry to break the American blockage from stopping Russian ships reaching Cuba to deliver an arsenal of nuclear missiles. He refused to do so and after some tense days, the Kremlin backed down and the crisis was averted. The known hero of that day was President J F Kennedy.
Stanislav Petrov, the unsung hero of this documentary said a nuclear disaster will happen someday. This tortured soul will fortunately not experience it. He died in 2017 aged 77.
This documentary only gets my rating of 4 for its poor presentation, but the story behind it is worth a solid 10.