Meet the man who saved the world. Stanislav Petrov. He’s an old guy now, but back when he was a younger man he was a Soviet military officer who saw one of the pivotal decisions over the course of human history fall right into his lap.

To make a long story short, Petrov and his uncanny bullsh*t detector averted nuclear war and, most likely, the end of living beings on this big blue marble spinning in space.

Now the subject of an upcoming film about his incredible intuition, which occurred more than 30 years ago on September 26, 1983.

Here’s how it went down, via the Associated Press:

An alarm had gone off that night, signaling the launch of U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles, and it was up to the 44-year-old lieutenant colonel to determine, and quickly, whether the attack on the Soviet Union was real.

“I realized that I had to make some kind of decision, and I was only 50/50,” Petrov told The Associated Press.

Despite the data coming in from the Soviet Union’s early-warning satellites over the United States, Petrov decided to consider it a false alarm. Had he done otherwise, the Soviet leadership could have responded by ordering a retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States.

It’s a damn good thing one of the modern day Russian military officers was awarded this option, because in light of recent news it most likely would’ve gone horribly wrong. Like wake-up-in-your -fallouts-shelter-hungover type wrong.

This from Mashable:

A top Russian official has called upon state-owned arms producers to introduce an ethics code in order to battle alcohol abuse in the workplace.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, speaking Tuesday to human resources directors of major state-owned companies, lamented “a propensity for alcohol abuse” at those plants.

She said “the lack of discipline” comes with a “high price not only for the factories, but for humankind.”

Among the meeting’s participants were representatives of the manufacturer of air-defense missile systems Almaz-Antei and nuclear corporation Rosatom.

Between Putin, the aforementioned drunk missile commanders and the kid in the following video, there’s really only one question left to be answered. Who misses the Soviet Union?