Question: What lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces correctly identified a false alarm on 26 September 1983
Sentence (from "1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident"): This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack based on erroneous data on the United States and its NATO allies, which would have probably resulted in immediate escalation of the cold-war stalemate to a full-scale nuclear war.
Relevant evidence: No