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What Developers Can Learn From the False Alarm That Nearly Started A Nuclear War
Thank Petrov we avoided nuclear war
‘’I knew perfectly well that nobody would be able to correct my mistake if I had made one’’ Stanislav Petrov
On 26th September 1983, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov averted nuclear war by questioning what seemed to be a nuclear attack and deciding it was a false alarm.
This is a great example of not trusting what you are being told or what seems to be happening, but thinking about what is really happening.
We can celebrate Stanislav Petrov for averting a nuclear war and his story gives us an interesting lesson to learn.
Is easy to react, difficult to think and respond.
1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
In 1983 was the during the cold war, relations between America and the Soviets were strained. Three weeks before 26th September, the Soviets had shot down a Korean plane because it crossed into Soviet airspace.
America rejected calls for stopping the arms race and the nuclear war was a real danger.
