The Man Who Stopped WWIII

2296.294 - 2321.336 Luke LaManna

The incident at Serpukhov 15 epitomized the dangerous levels of mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union. Years of Cold War tension had created an atmosphere where even a computer glitch could be misinterpreted as an act of aggression, potentially triggering nuclear war. In communist Russia, the false alarm incident ruined Stanislav Petrov's 26-year career in the military.