It's amazing how well propaganda works. The idea that he prevented an atomic war is absurd. Firstly, he was a lieutenant colonel. Had no power to start anything

It's amazing how well propaganda works. The idea that he prevented an atomic war is absurd. Firstly, he was a lieutenant colonel. Had no power to start anything let alone nuclear war. Secondly, even if he had accepted the false alarms, people up the chain of command would have figured out it was a false alarm. In what scenario would the US only launch 5 nukes? The story is obvious nonsense or propaganda and yet it gets posted over and over on social media. Why? > Petrov's decision. Petrov's decision is one of the most overhyped propaganda on social media. It's a non-story turned into a story for some reason. If people just took the time to think about the content rather than mindlessly consuming content maybe we'd get less nonsense.