by JeKa:
During the Cold War, there were many cases when the world was on the brink of a nuclear war due to false evidence of missile detection systems. In 1979, an alarm was raised in the United States because of the fact that one of the computers was mistakenly loaded a training program of a massive nuclear strike. However, the satellites did not detect missile launches, and the alarm was canceled. And in 1983, the Soviet satellite detection system failed, transmitting a signal about the launch of several American missiles. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, sitting on the pulte, assumed the responsibility of not passing information to the country's top leadership, deciding that it was unlikely that the United States would strike the first strike with such a small force.
On January 19, 2006, Stanislav Petrov was awarded the special prize of the international public organization “Association of Citizens of the World” at the UN headquarters in New York City. It represents a crystal statue “The Hand holding the globe” with the inscription “The Man Who Prevented Nuclear War.”

by maxho:
I imagined, guests come to you.
"the fun statuette, what did it get for?"
"That is how the nuclear war was prevented"