Correct the following sentence. had russian lieutenant colonel stanislav petrov not correctly judged the early warning system’s reports of an incoming nuclear missile on september 26, 1983, to be false and disobeyed orders from his superiors to retaliate, russia and the united states would likely have entered a large-scale nuclear war.
a. had russian lieutenant colonel stanislav petrov not correctly judged the early warning system’s reports of an incoming nuclear missile on september 26, 1983, to be false and disobeyed orders from his superiors to retaliate, russia and the united states would likely have entered a large-scale nuclear war.
b. if russian lieutenant colonel stanislav petrov had not correctly judged the early warning system that reported an incoming nuclear missile on september 26, 1983 to be false and then disobeyed orders from his superiors to retaliate, russia and the united states likely would have entered a large-scale nuclear war.
c. russian lieutenant colonel stanislav petrov likely prevented a large-scale nuclear war between the united states and russia on september 26, 1983 by correctly judging that the early warning system’s reports of an incoming nuclear missile were false, disobeying orders from his superiors to retaliate.
d. on september 26, 1983, russian lieutenant colonel stanislav petrov correctly judged that the early warning system’s reports of an incoming nuclear missile were false, disobeying orders from his superiors to retaliate and likely preventing the united states and russia from entering a large-scale nuclear war.
e. on september 26, 1983, russian lieutenant colonel stanislav petrov likely prevented the united states and russia from entering a large-scale nuclear war when he disobeyed orders from his superiors to retaliate and correctly judged that the early warning system’s reports that a nuclear missile was incoming were false.