September 26, 1983

1983-09-26 00:14 UTC

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Stanislav Petrov waits

Stanislav Petrov waits
Photo: Queery-54 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A Soviet duty officer judges a missile-attack alert to be a false alarm, and is right.
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It is recorded at 1983-09-26 00:14 UTC — September 26, 1983 in Coordinated Universal Time. Every minute in this registry is stored in UTC so it reads the same anywhere in the world.
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