Vasily Arkhipov
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title:
Vasily Arkhipov
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Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov was a senior Soviet Naval officer who prevented a Russian submarine from launching a nuclear torpedo against ships of the United States Navy at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The course of events that would have followed such an action cannot be known, but speculations have been advanced, up to and including global thermonuclear war. Off the coast of Cuba, US ships had dropped depth charges. The captain of the diesel powered submarine
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Soviet naval officer credited with averting a nuclear incident (1926–1998)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
date created:
2005-05-29T13:03:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T18:51:33Z
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