Historyspeaking topic
During the Cold War, the world came within a hair of nuclear war until a single Soviet officer judged the computer's 'US missile launch' alarm to be an error and defied his orders. The fate of billions resting on one person's intuition and disobedience exposes how fragile the belief that 'systems keep us safe' really is.
— The Stanislav Petrov incident, 1983
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