In Odder Words
03-12-2006, 02:13 PM
17 Feb 1987
Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev reveals Reagan's preoccupation with space aliens: "At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion..."
15 Sep 1987
During a luncheon with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnatze in the White House, President Reagan once again wondered what would happen if the Earth were under attack from an external threat: "Don't you think the United States and the Soviet Union would be together?"
4 May 1988
During a question-and-answer session in Chicago, President Reagan revisits his 'invaders from space' notion: "I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?"
Meanwhile, back in the U.S.S.R...
Russian Colonel Who Averted Nuclear War Receives World Citizen Award
Created: 20.01.2006 13:18 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:18 MSK
MosNews
Retired Russian colonel Stanislav Petrov received a special World Citizen Award at a UN meeting in New York on Thursday. Petrov was honored as the “Man Who Averted Nuclear War”.
In a meeting held at the UN’s Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on Jan. 19, the Association of World Citizens (AWC) presented the retired officer with his award.
The inscription on the award, which has a granite base with a solid glass hand holding the earth, read: “The single hand that holds the earth symbolizes your heroic deed on September 26, 1983 that earned you the title: The Man Who Averted Nuclear War.” The back of the award read: “May the hand now symbolize humanity united to save our world by eliminating nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.”
Back in 1983 Petrov made a decision that prevented a war that could have destroyed the planet. He was the duty officer at Russia’s main nuclear command center in September 1983 when the system indicated a nuclear missile attack was launched by the U.S. on Russia.
It was just after midnight, Sept. 26, and 120 staff were working the graveyard shift in Serpukhov-15, the secret USSR command bunker hidden in a forest 30 miles northeast of Moscow, WorldNetDaily reported.
In the commander’s chair was Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, 44, looking down from his mezzanine desk to the gymnasium-sized main floor filled with military officers and technicians charged with monitoring any U.S. missiles and retaliating instantly.
Petrov was highly aware that Cold War tensions were acute, as USSR fighters had shot down a Korean airliner on Sept. 1. But he was completely shocked when the warning siren began to wail and two lights on his desk console began flashing MISSILE ATTACK and START.
“Start” was the instruction to launch, irreversibly, all 5,000 or so Soviet missiles and obliterate America.
A new, unproven Soviet satellite system had picked up a flash in Montana near a Minuteman II silo. Then another — five, all told.
Petrov recalls his legs were “like cotton,” as they say in Russian. He stared at the huge electronic wall map of the United States in terror and disbelief. As his staff gawked upward at him from the floor, he had the thought, “Who would order an attack with only five missiles? That big an idiot has not been born yet, not even in the U.S.”
The Soviet procedure manual was inflexible, and it demanded he notify his superiors of the attack immediately. But relying on his intuition, Petrov disobeyed. For almost five minutes, he stalled, holding his hotline phone in one hand and his intercom in the other, barking orders to his personnel to get back to their desks.
Then he made the decision that saved the world. Summoning up his firmest voice, he called his Kremlin liaison and said it was a false alarm. But today he admits, “I wasn’t 100 percent sure. Not even close to 100 percent.”
Months later, it was determined that sunlight reflecting off clouds in Montana had caused a faulty satellite computer assembly to report a missile launch flash. But by that time, Petrov’s excellent military career had been sidetracked. He wasn’t fired, but he was transferred —
and never got any medals or recognition. When his wife was found to have a brain tumor in 1993, he retired to take care of her. When she died, he borrowed money to give her a funeral.
Today, Petrov, 67, lives in Moscow on a monthly pension of less than $200.
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So then, when Gorby met with Ronnie to discuss avertin' a very REAL POSSIBLITY OF NUCLEAR WAR, I wunder how many Soviet interpreters the Russian leader CANNED fer "incompetence" before he realized the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES wuz IN FACT fixated on space aliens 'n shit?
Wuz Reagan an airhead or WHUH?!?
"I did not call him an airhead. The quote, as first published in The Washington Post, dropped the word ‘apparent’ before ‘airhead.’ What I said in the book that appears plainly on the page is I found him at first an ‘apparent airhead.’ And the whole course of the book makes it quite obvious that that first impression was wrong."
-- Edmund Morris, author of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, September 29 Today.
http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/nq/1999/nq19991004.html
"I would suggest that no Presidency be judged until a century has passed..."--Imagineer
"Congratulations, Odder! You are now more than a hundred years old! Have you anything to say about the FACT that Reagan was once an American President?"
Odder: I guess facts can INDEED be stewpid thingz...
"Facts are stupid things."
Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh071702.shtml
Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev reveals Reagan's preoccupation with space aliens: "At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion..."
15 Sep 1987
During a luncheon with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnatze in the White House, President Reagan once again wondered what would happen if the Earth were under attack from an external threat: "Don't you think the United States and the Soviet Union would be together?"
4 May 1988
During a question-and-answer session in Chicago, President Reagan revisits his 'invaders from space' notion: "I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?"
Meanwhile, back in the U.S.S.R...
Russian Colonel Who Averted Nuclear War Receives World Citizen Award
Created: 20.01.2006 13:18 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:18 MSK
MosNews
Retired Russian colonel Stanislav Petrov received a special World Citizen Award at a UN meeting in New York on Thursday. Petrov was honored as the “Man Who Averted Nuclear War”.
In a meeting held at the UN’s Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on Jan. 19, the Association of World Citizens (AWC) presented the retired officer with his award.
The inscription on the award, which has a granite base with a solid glass hand holding the earth, read: “The single hand that holds the earth symbolizes your heroic deed on September 26, 1983 that earned you the title: The Man Who Averted Nuclear War.” The back of the award read: “May the hand now symbolize humanity united to save our world by eliminating nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.”
Back in 1983 Petrov made a decision that prevented a war that could have destroyed the planet. He was the duty officer at Russia’s main nuclear command center in September 1983 when the system indicated a nuclear missile attack was launched by the U.S. on Russia.
It was just after midnight, Sept. 26, and 120 staff were working the graveyard shift in Serpukhov-15, the secret USSR command bunker hidden in a forest 30 miles northeast of Moscow, WorldNetDaily reported.
In the commander’s chair was Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, 44, looking down from his mezzanine desk to the gymnasium-sized main floor filled with military officers and technicians charged with monitoring any U.S. missiles and retaliating instantly.
Petrov was highly aware that Cold War tensions were acute, as USSR fighters had shot down a Korean airliner on Sept. 1. But he was completely shocked when the warning siren began to wail and two lights on his desk console began flashing MISSILE ATTACK and START.
“Start” was the instruction to launch, irreversibly, all 5,000 or so Soviet missiles and obliterate America.
A new, unproven Soviet satellite system had picked up a flash in Montana near a Minuteman II silo. Then another — five, all told.
Petrov recalls his legs were “like cotton,” as they say in Russian. He stared at the huge electronic wall map of the United States in terror and disbelief. As his staff gawked upward at him from the floor, he had the thought, “Who would order an attack with only five missiles? That big an idiot has not been born yet, not even in the U.S.”
The Soviet procedure manual was inflexible, and it demanded he notify his superiors of the attack immediately. But relying on his intuition, Petrov disobeyed. For almost five minutes, he stalled, holding his hotline phone in one hand and his intercom in the other, barking orders to his personnel to get back to their desks.
Then he made the decision that saved the world. Summoning up his firmest voice, he called his Kremlin liaison and said it was a false alarm. But today he admits, “I wasn’t 100 percent sure. Not even close to 100 percent.”
Months later, it was determined that sunlight reflecting off clouds in Montana had caused a faulty satellite computer assembly to report a missile launch flash. But by that time, Petrov’s excellent military career had been sidetracked. He wasn’t fired, but he was transferred —
and never got any medals or recognition. When his wife was found to have a brain tumor in 1993, he retired to take care of her. When she died, he borrowed money to give her a funeral.
Today, Petrov, 67, lives in Moscow on a monthly pension of less than $200.
-----------------------------------------------
So then, when Gorby met with Ronnie to discuss avertin' a very REAL POSSIBLITY OF NUCLEAR WAR, I wunder how many Soviet interpreters the Russian leader CANNED fer "incompetence" before he realized the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES wuz IN FACT fixated on space aliens 'n shit?
Wuz Reagan an airhead or WHUH?!?
"I did not call him an airhead. The quote, as first published in The Washington Post, dropped the word ‘apparent’ before ‘airhead.’ What I said in the book that appears plainly on the page is I found him at first an ‘apparent airhead.’ And the whole course of the book makes it quite obvious that that first impression was wrong."
-- Edmund Morris, author of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, September 29 Today.
http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/nq/1999/nq19991004.html
"I would suggest that no Presidency be judged until a century has passed..."--Imagineer
"Congratulations, Odder! You are now more than a hundred years old! Have you anything to say about the FACT that Reagan was once an American President?"
Odder: I guess facts can INDEED be stewpid thingz...
"Facts are stupid things."
Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh071702.shtml