When a SINGLE Mistake Nearly Started a Nuclear War - Cold War

Описание: In 1983, the world came closer to nuclear war than most people will ever realize.

A single warning system inside the Soviet Union reported incoming nuclear missiles from the United States. Protocol demanded retaliation. The clock was ticking. And one officer had only seconds to decide whether the alarm was real… or a catastrophic mistake.

This video tells the true story of Stanislav Petrov, the man whose decision prevented a global nuclear catastrophe during the height of the Cold War. A false alarm. A flawed system. And a human judgment that changed history.

You’ll discover:

How a false radar alert nearly triggered World War III

Why Cold War nuclear systems were dangerously unreliable

The moment one human decision overruled military protocol

How close humanity came to nuclear annihilation in 1983

This is not a movie. This is not a theory.
This is a real historical event that almost ended the modern world.

▶️ Watch until the end to understand why this incident remained classified for years — and why it still matters today.

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