How Russian flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov prevented World War III with a simple ‘No’ and saved 8 billion lives

How Russian flotilla commander Vasili Arkhipov prevented World War III with a simple ‘No’ and saved 8 billion lives

October 28, US President John F. Kennedy and USSR President Nikita Khrushchev reached an agreement. The missiles in Cuba would be removed. The crisis ended. But it had nearly ended very differently. In the dark, underwater, three men almost started World War III – and one man stopped them.

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