Petrov was a Soviet military officer and worked in a nuclear early warning centre and was credited for averting a possible nuclear disaster. In 1983, at the peak of the Cold War he was on duty when the computers wrongly detected incoming missiles from the US. Petrov did not report this to his superiors and possibly prevented a nuclear war. He received data in the …
For the next four years the Big Ben will be silent. A restoration project will silence the Big Ben, which has marked the passage of time since the Victorian era. Crowds gathered around to hear its final set of bongs. The Big Ben is a constant presence in London daily life and all around the world as the broadcaster BBC uses the sound in two …
Hurricane Harvey turns roads into rivers in Houston, Texas as 75cm of rain has fallen on the city. That means a year´s rainfall came down within a week. It is the biggest storm in the history of the state of Texas. Up to 2.000 people have already been rescued, many were picked up by a helicopter from their rooftops. As the rain continues the rescue …
