It was September 1983. The Cold War was at its peak. And inside a secret Soviet bunker, a computer screen flashed a terrifying message: "MISSILE LAUNCH DETECTED."

According to protocol, World War III should have started that night. But it didn't. Not because of a treaty or a peace talk, but because of one man’s gut feeling and a "typo" in the logic of a machine.

In this episode of Histovra, we uncover the true story of Stanislav Petrov, the man who held the fate of the world in his hands fo...