# Thank you, Stanislav Petrov

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 27, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-stanislav-petrov/374292 "2006-09-27T00:29:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-stanislav-petrov/374292/21 "2017-09-21T05:22:58Z")

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> [@Dallas\_Jones](#):
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> There are times, when Global Thermonuclear War is the proper solution to so many issues. The '80s were one of those times.

Unless the issue is human civilization itself, I don’t see how it could be solved by total nuclear war.

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