He Shot Down 269 Civilians on Orders
Cold War

He Shot Down 269 Civilians on Orders

A Soviet fighter pilot got an order in 1983: shoot down a passenger jet. He did. What nobody told him was that he'd started a chain of events that would nearly end the Cold War—and that the man sent to stop it would do so by going completely insane.

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Cold WarSoviet UnionNuclear BrinkmanshipAviation DisastersGennady OsipovichStanislav Petrov20th CenturyEast AsiaMilitary HistoryButterfly Effect

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