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Enough with nuclear weapons

Sep 26, 2018

The International Day established by the UN in 2013 reminds us of the necessity to totally eliminate nuclear weapons, to achieve the fundamental objective of peace and security. Atomic weapons, in fact, continue to represent an unacceptable menace to the world population. The date chosen by the UN recalls the evening of 26 September 1983, […]

The International Day established by the UN in 2013 reminds us of the necessity to totally eliminate nuclear weapons, to achieve the fundamental objective of peace and security. Atomic weapons, in fact, continue to represent an unacceptable menace to the world population. The date chosen by the UN recalls the evening of 26 September 1983, when the Soviet Colonel, Stanislav Petrov decided correctly, to retain as an error, the missile alarms from the Unites States that appeared on the screens, despite the contrary opinion of the technicians. Petrov chose, in the span of a few minutes, to not follow the procedure that would have led to the reaction of the Soviet Union with the launching of its own atomic bombs. The man who saved the world from a real nuclear holocaust, died in absolute anonymity in 2017, in a town not far from Moscow.

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