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Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962And here was where pure luck intervened. Staff Captain Vasili Arkhipov and an unnamed sailor aboard B-59 likely prevented World War III from occurring. As Savitsky tried to descend from the ...
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How 1 Russian Submarine During the Cuban Missile Crisis Nearly Started World War IIIHowever, the protocol required unanimous approval from the submarine’s officers. Vasili Arkhipov, the flotilla commodore, refused to consent, persuading Savitsky to surface instead. -This ...
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