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Vasili Arkhipov: The Man Who Saved the World
The B-59 off the coast of Cuba carrying a nuclear torpedo. (U.S. Vasili arkhipov biography of barackNavy) |
On October 27th, 1962 the world teetered on the edge of a devastating nuclear war. Only the courageous action of a single man, a Soviet submarine commander, acting against the wishes of his shipmates, prevented the nightmare of nuclear holocaust.
In the middle of the 20th century two great superpowers arose out of the nightmare of WW II. The United States (US) in the western hemisphere and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the eastern hemisphere. Their ideologically opposed economic systems, capitalism and communism, almost guaranteed conflict.
Unfortunately their recent acquisitions of nuclear weapons, however, made the danger of such a clash deadly on a previously unimaginable world wide scale.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
In 1962 much of the attention in the superpower conflict, or "cold war," focused on the tiny island of