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.Hello all. I read. A lot.Patterson,Crais, King, Koontz...
.Matthew Desmond [works at some silly college]..."Poverty, by America"
Page 126-127
We should bump up the top marginal tax bracket- perhaps to 50%...
The Federal income tax is progressive...
That is crazy. At first I read that as Colonel Sanders, who saved us from bland fried chicken.Not a Novel or larger volume of work but still significant.
Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov who is credited with saving the world from a Nuclear Holocaust in September 26, 1983.
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What was the day human civilization came closest to extinction?
September 26, 1983, in the Serpukhov-15 bunker in Moscow , Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, 44, was on duty. His responsibility was to identify a possible nuclear attack by the United States against the USSR, given the period of the full 'cold war'. In the event of an attack,
Petrov would notify his superiors and they would launch hundreds of nuclear missiles against the United States. These were the procedures.
After midnight, computers indicated that the United States had launched a missile attack flying at 24,000 km/h toward the Soviet Union. With only 13 minutes to the target, Petrov had the feeling that this was a mistake, because if the Americans had wanted to attack, they would
not have launched just one missile. So he decided to delay , assuming that it was a system error.
In the next 5 minutes, four more missile alarms went off .
A tense atmosphere gripped the room, the red button to release the nuclear warheads flashed, and everyone looked at Petrov, waiting for his reaction. He had 8 minutes to decide the fate of humanity . If he told his superiors, it would be the end of the world. Computers indicated
the attack, satellites showed nothing, and ground-based radars could detect the missiles only when they were already clearly visible.
Petrov trusted his instincts and decided not to release any nuclear warheads because he thought it was just a false alarm, since he couldn't understand how the United States had launched only five nuclear warheads towards Moscow. The paradox? Petrov wasn't supposed to work that day, he was resting. He replaced his colleague who stayed home with the flu. How strange fate is, huh ?
That isn’t the only time.Not a Novel or larger volume of work but still significant.
Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov who is credited with saving the world from a Nuclear Holocaust in September 26, 1983.
View attachment 35924
What was the day human civilization came closest to extinction?
September 26, 1983, in the Serpukhov-15 bunker in Moscow , Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, 44, was on duty. His responsibility was to identify a possible nuclear attack by the United States against the USSR, given the period of the full 'cold war'. In the event of an attack,
Petrov would notify his superiors and they would launch hundreds of nuclear missiles against the United States. These were the procedures.
After midnight, computers indicated that the United States had launched a missile attack flying at 24,000 km/h toward the Soviet Union. With only 13 minutes to the target, Petrov had the feeling that this was a mistake, because if the Americans had wanted to attack, they would
not have launched just one missile. So he decided to delay , assuming that it was a system error.
In the next 5 minutes, four more missile alarms went off .
A tense atmosphere gripped the room, the red button to release the nuclear warheads flashed, and everyone looked at Petrov, waiting for his reaction. He had 8 minutes to decide the fate of humanity . If he told his superiors, it would be the end of the world. Computers indicated
the attack, satellites showed nothing, and ground-based radars could detect the missiles only when they were already clearly visible.
Petrov trusted his instincts and decided not to release any nuclear warheads because he thought it was just a false alarm, since he couldn't understand how the United States had launched only five nuclear warheads towards Moscow. The paradox? Petrov wasn't supposed to work that day, he was resting. He replaced his colleague who stayed home with the flu. How strange fate is, huh ?
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