"it turns out that we may owe our survival not to the ill-advised alpha male brinksmanship of the Kennedys, but to an unsung hero in the Soviet navy: While the US Air Force was recklessly dropping depth charges on his submarine to force it to surface, Soviet naval officer Vasili Arkhipov blocked the submarine captain from firing a nuclear torpedo. You may be here today because of Arkhipov, someone whose name is unknown to most of us."
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:25:03 +0000
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