The Man Who Stopped WWIII

330.117 - 361.616 Luke LaManna

But Petrov's act of defiance and the fact that the world came so close to nuclear annihilation remained top secret until the mid-1990s, when the collapse of the Soviet Union finally allowed the story to emerge. In early 1982, Stanislav Petrov walked down the long corridor of a top-secret Soviet military bunker. Petrov was a 43-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Force.