Putin on what is likely to happen if there is no human in the nuclear warning loop. https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2105710694964306232?s=20
Cites example of Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, the human who saved us from nuclear war in 1983. I had added Vasily Arkhipov & Melvin Goodman at min 46:30 of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxOUGHXQjo8&t=402s
I feel a particular affinity to Petrov, since we were of the same vintage. I was born seven days before WWII began, he seven days after it started.
Hat tip to Jason Ross of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)*** who wrote a timely piece on September 26 (the 43rd anniversary of Petrov’s bold and felicitous inaction).
‘Always Under Human Control’: From Petrov to the Summit
*** As for the EIR, in my view it is perhaps THE most thoughtful daily publication. (And I wrote CIA’S “current intelligence analysis” for decades).
I recommend the EIR highly; might even say, “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it!”