I believe that jr0n brought this up last year, but let's all tip our hats, fedoras, whathaveyous, to a great world hero,
Stanislav Petrov, the man that when faced with the worst of all decisions, and saddled with the fact that he could kill the planet, despite being told what to do by his boss, and possibly invoking a self-inflicted double-tap 'suicide' to the skull by some Spetznatz wetworks team, said "Fuck that" and saved us all.