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So, he did his job correctly. It was his job to determine if the sensor reading was real or a malfunction. It's a nice story and all, but I think it's overblown.

" It was his job to determine if the sensor reading was real or a malfunction."

Rodney, did you read the story? I will help you . The next sentence is from the story.

"It was Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov’s duty to use computers and satellites to warn the Soviet Union if there were ever a nuclear missile attack by the United States."

It was NOT his job to determine the reality or correctness of the warning, just to pass it along. If you read the rest of the story it says he lost much because he determined the warning to be false.

Now maybe this is an urban legend or something but if it is true and he really did all this he does deserve more than he got. The US should give him a pension. After all he did much more to benefit the country than most of the democratic congresscritters ever did.