Soviet submariner stopped WW3

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The man who saved the world: The Soviet submariner who single-handedly averted WWIII at height of the Cuban Missile Crisis



  • U.S.S.R. and U.S. stood on brink of nuclear war during Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Four Russian submarines secretly set sail to Cuba, with nuclear weapons
  • Vasili Arkhipov, who died in 1998, used last veto against firing sub's torpedo
  • The Russians instead surrendered and his action avoided World War Three


He was the man who saved the world by single-handedly averting World War Three five decades ago, yet he died humiliated, outcast and an unknown. Only now has his story has come to light.

A documentary shown tonight told how for 13 days during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the world held its breath as the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. stood on the brink of nuclear war.
At the height of the Cold War, when paranoia on both sides meant the slightest provocation could spark nuclear war, four submarines secretly set sail from Russia to communist Cuba.


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