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Was this the WWIII that the late Colonel Stanislav Petrov stopped single handed - by disobeying KSOs - for which he was reprimanded, or one of the many other similar events - including in the movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
He was awarded $1000 in 2006 - and a posthumous $50,000 in 2018
I'd have thought it was worth rather more than that, but hey ...... we're still alive
LFH
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