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Postby ozzy72 » Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:08 am

I'd not heard about this, what a remarkable man!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24280831
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Re: A modest hero

Postby Webb » Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:15 pm

It seems the Russians, far from being the war mongering loons they are often depicted as, probably saved the world from nuclear war.

Vasili Arkhipov

Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998) was a Soviet Navy officer. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo and thereby prevented a nuclear war. Thomas Blanton (then director of the National Security Archive) said in 2002 that "a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world".
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" - Sen. John Blutarsky

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Re: A modest hero

Postby Jacob2009 » Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:00 pm

Agreed, Webb. They were just as reluctant to go to nuclear war as we were.
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