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The Soviet Navyman that literally saved the world!
You many not be familiar with the name Vasili Arkhipov, but maybe you should be. He's the Soviet Navy man who stopped nuclear ...
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How 1 Russian Submarine During the Cuban Missile Crisis Nearly Started World War III
However, 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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Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962
And 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 ...