Since the birth of human civilization, wars have never stopped. Whether they are wars within a country or wars between countries, they have almost affected the progress of civilization in the past thousands of years. Especially in the modern times of World War I and World War II, the development of weapons technology made the war more rapid and caused greater casualties.
After World War II, the world established a new order, and the two superpowers, headed by the United States and the Soviet Union, became competitors. However, the emergence of nuclear weapons after World War II made no country dare to act rashly. Once the third world war breaks out, it will not be a battle on the same level as the first two wars. The number of existing weapons of mankind is enough to push mankind back to primitive society.
Under such circumstances, neither country dared to take action easily, thus forming a Cold War situation. The two countries launched military competition, research and development of nuclear weapons, and continuously improved their strength. The United States had just exploded its 10-million-ton "Champion Castle", and the Soviet Union was not to be outdone. Then it detonated the world's most powerful nuclear bomb, "Big Ivan," on Novaya Zemlya. In order not to affect its own country, it had to reduce its power. Halfway through, even so, he almost shattered his own window.
With the power of this kind of weapon, once a war breaks out and a nuclear war begins, it will only be a matter of time before the world is destroyed. Since the end of World War II in the last century, the United States and the Soviet Union have entered critical situations many times. The first time that made people nervous was the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1970s. The United States entered the first level of combat alert. In fact, there was no military conflict at the time, but the Soviet Union tested missiles in Cuba.
The most critical time was in the 1980s, that is, one night 35 years ago. If a Soviet officer had not been on duty, the world would have been destroyed. It was the most sensitive period for the situation between the two sides, and no military conflict broke out before that. Until that night, the officer on duty discovered five missiles heading towards the Soviet Union.
Stanislav Lavpetrov knew the seriousness of the matter and finally chose to conceal it and did not report the matter to his superiors. At that time, the two sides were like taut strings. These five missiles were enough to trigger a war. If he had fought back at that time, everyone could imagine the consequences. It can be said that Lav Petrov's decision saved the world.
Lav Petrov’s judgment was later proven to be correct. This time, except for the malfunction of the machine, it was just a false alarm. Although Lav Petrov was ultimately blamed for this, people all regard him as a real hero, who solved the biggest crisis in human history. If another person had been on duty at the time, no one knows what would have happened now.
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