A former Soviet military officer credited with averting a...

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    A former Soviet military officer credited with averting a possible nuclear disaster at the peak of the Cold War has died at the age of 77.
    Stanislav Petrov was on duty at a Russian nuclear early warning centre in 1983 when computers wrongly detected incoming missiles from the US.




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