“Vasili Arkhipov is arguably the most important person in modern history, thanks to whom October 27, 2017 isn’t the 55th anniversary of WWIII.

Vasily Arkhipov, an officer who prevented nuclear confrontation during Cuban missile crisis. Archive Photo On Oct. 27, 1962, the world was close to a full-scale confrontation between the two ...

Vasily Arkhipov and the End of Days. History's Heroes History's Youngest Heroes. Deep in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, a young Soviet naval officer must make a decision that could either save ...

And we should celebrate those, like Vasili Arkhipov, who in moments of existential decision, choose life rather than extinction. You’ve read 1 article in the last month.

But it didn’t happen, because that’s when Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov steps into the story. Soviet submarine captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov.

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You many not be familiar with the name Vasili Arkhipov, but maybe you should be. He's the Soviet Navy man who stopped nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the '60s. Arkhipov, AKA the man ...

Vasili Arkhipov was born into a peasant family near Moscow in 1926. ... Arkhipov was serving as second in command on the Soviet B-59 nuclear submarine at the time of the missile crisis.

In a world on the brink of nuclear war, Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval commander, became humanity's last hope. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear torpedo aboard ...

Vasili Arkhipov was aboard the B-59 Soviet submarine when an American destroyer, the USS Beale began to drop depth charges. His captain Valentin Savitsky was unaware that they were non-lethal " ...