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Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станислав Евграфович Петров) (born c. 1939) is a retired Russian Strategic Rocket Forces lieutenant colonel who, on September 26, 1983, averted a potential nuclear war by refusing to believe that the United States had launched missiles against the Soviet Union, despite the indications given by his computerized early warning systems.[1]