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DESCRIPTION:World Hero, Stanislav Petrov, the retired Soviet military officer who 
 averted a potential nuclear war in 1983, will be at San Francisco State 
 University on Thursday at 4:00pm. A Danish movie company that is making a 
 full-length documentary (partially a docudrama) will be filming him 
 speaking in a classroom (classroom HSS 362 holds 70 people). If you would 
 like to be in the audience and filmed as part of this documentary come to 
 San Francisco State, corner of 19th and Holloway, on Thursday May 24 at 
 4:00 pm  Contact Doug Mattern, Association of World Citizens  email: 
 worldcit@best.com Tel: 650-326-1409 \n\n==============================\n\nA 
 special World Citizen Award was presented at the Unied Nations to Stanislav 
 Petrov for his courage and judgment on September 26, 1983, when in charge 
 of an early warning bunker outside of Moscow. On that fateful day of high 
 tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, the early warning 
 system reported the U.S. had launched a missile attack on Russia. Instead 
 of alerting command headquarters, which may have set in motion a 
 retaliatory nuclear exchange, Colonel Petrov retained his composure for an 
 agonizing time as alarms blared with more warnings of an attack, trusting 
 his judgment that the warning was a false alarm. Colonel Petrov was correct 
 and his decision may have saved humanity from a nuclear catastrophe. Dr. 
 Bruce Blair, President of the Center for Defense Information, and a former 
 U.S. Minuteman Missile Launch Officer, believes this incident is the 
 closest we have come to accidental nuclear war. We are all indebted to 
 Stanislav Petrov, a Hero of our time and Citizen of the World. See: 
 http://www.brightstarsound.com/\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/22/18419794.php
SUMMARY:World Hero Stanislav Petrov at SFSU – The Man Who Averted WWIII
LOCATION:Stan Francisco State University -Classroom HSS 362\nCorner of 19th and 
 Holloway, San Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/22/18419794.php
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