The Man Who Saved the World

New York, NY, September 26, 2018 - To celebrate that today is not the 35th anniversary of World War III, Stanislav Petrov, the man who helped avert an all-out nuclear exchange between Russia and the U.S. on September 26 1983 was honored in New York with the $50,000 Future of Life Award at a [...]

Boston, MA., September 18, 2017 - By Ariel Conn, Future of Life Institute, Stanislav Petrov September 23, 1983: Soviet Union Detects Incoming Missiles A Soviet early warning satellite showed that the United States had launched five land-based missiles at the Soviet Union. The alert came at a time of high tension between the two [...]