This Russian grandpa saved the life of a handful (about a few billion) people 26 years ago by not pressing a button. He was the officer on duty in the good old Soviet Union when the Russian missile warning system (that he had developed himself) indicated an American offensive move. He did not forward the message because he assumed it was a false alarm, and that way prevented World War III. The story leaked to mass media ten years later and ever since then he's been chased for interviews. (If you watch TV every now and then chances are you know the whole story.) A friend of ours recently worked with him on the production of a play so we asked Stanislaw himself how big a deal he thinks the whole thing is. Answer: Not big at all. He prevented a nuclear war? That kind of stuff happens.
Read the interview.
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