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The Man Who Saved The World From Nuclear War

You might have seen super heroes saving the planet from monster attacks and alien invasion. Are all of those super heroes saving the world just stories or there are instances where some hero saved the world from a terrible catastrophes? Let's jump right into the story of  Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who saved the world from a nuclear war.
On 26th September 1983, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system. He was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defense Forces. His job was to monitor signs of incoming missiles and report to the higher officials in case of an attack. On that day, for the first time the nuclear early warning system of the Soviet Union reported the launch of multiple USAF Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases in the United States. What Petrov decided to do saved the world from a nuclear war on that day. so, what was the amazing act he did? He didn't report it to anyone ! The reason is that he had a gut instinct that it was a false alarm and he was right about that. The early warning system had some malfunction which led to  the false alarm.
Since he saved the world from a nuclear war, he might have got some pretty honorable rewards right? The only reward he received was giving him a punishment of changing his position to less sensitive part of the defense department. Petrov was unable to explain why he felt it was a false alarm. Later on he told that he believes what might have led to that gut instinct could be the reasons like the number of missile launches he detected in the system. Since it was during the cold war the United States who is having a huge number of nuclear missiles with them wouldn't make such a wrong move when they are striking first. It was logically wrong. The system had detected only six nuclear missile launch and that doesn't seem to be a clever move. so his gut instinct made him believe that it was a false alarm. 
The man who saved the world by trusting his gut instinct left this world on 19 May 2017 at the age of 77.
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