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A modest hero

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:08 am

by ozzy72

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

Re: A modest hero

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:15 pm

by Webb

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".

Re: A modest hero

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:00 pm

by Jacob2009

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