Peregrine

I’ll thank Tene for pointing me at this one:

Take a look at http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/926-is-petrov-d.html. This was probably one of the most important moments and one of the best decisions anyone ever made in the entirety of the 20th century.

Petrov decided to not destroy the world just because a bunch of flashing lights told him that five (that’s right only five) US missiles might be heading towards the USSR.