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Re:Keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's ... by hkt on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:26AM (#24916501)
Seems like a good time to drop a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Definitely highly sane

Edit: sentence structure

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Re:Keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's ... by ncmncm on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:45AM (#24916611)
From the Wikipedia page, for ironic appreciation: "For the footballer, see Stanislav Petrov (footballer)."

(The satchel supposedly containing the "launch codes" was called by the press, and maybe the president's minders, the "nuclear football".)

But if there were ever a Hero for the ages, Petrov was it. Achilles can take a hike.

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