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Who is Vasili Arkhipov, and How Did He Save the World? On October 27th, 1962 during the Cuban Missile crisis the United States dropped some practice depth charges on a Soviet submarine located near the blockade. They were non-lethal charges meant to draw out the submarine, but the Soviets didnt know that. And speaking of things people didnt know, the US didnt know that this submarine was armed with a nuclear warhead. Convinced they were under attack, the ships captain, Valentin Savitsky, ordered the ship to fire its warhead. Had that missile been fired, the dominoes would have fallen and likely nuclear war would have broken out across the planet. But protocol said all three officers on board the ship that day had to give the okay to launch the warhead, and one of them did not: A guy named Vasili Arkhipov, who is arguably the reason were all alive today.

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