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On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was stationed at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, part of the Soviet Air Defense Forces.
After the early warning system detected what appeared to be an incoming American Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.
Petrov and his staff ultimately decided that it was a false alarm, and a later investigation bore this out: the system was triggered by the sun reflecting off clouds.
By refusing to launch an attack, Petrov potentially averted hundreds of millions - if not billions - of deaths.
In 2004, in recognition of his achievement, Petrov was given the World Citizen Award by the San Francisco-based Association of World Citizens, along with a $1,000 prize. “I didn't believe I had done something extraordinary. I was simply doing my job and I did it well,” Petrov commented at the time.
In 2013 he received the Dresden Peace Prize as “The Man Who Saved The World.”