Re:Happy Petrov day
by jonnathanson on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:59PM
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An interesting part of the article is that he was actually demoted after averting nuclear disaster. This is because admitting that there was a fault in the nuclear defense system would be tantamount to admitting that top Soviet military and scientific minds were capable of error. Rather than embarrass the regime, the military quietly moved Petrov out of the spotlight.
Re:Happy Petrov day
by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Thursday September 26, 2013 @02:29PM
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This bug in human nature makes me half wish they were destroyed, but the other half of me wants to take eat, and be entertained.
-$30,000 from the Dresden Prize
-$1,000 from SF's World Citizen Award (does that even cover airfare from Russia?!)
Preventing nuclear disaster, it seems, is an undervalued skill. Mr. Petrov needs to fire his publicist.