You many not be familiar with the name Vasili Arkhipov, but maybe you should be. He's the Soviet Navy man who stopped nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the '60s. Arkhipov, AKA the man ...

In a world on the brink of nuclear war, Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval commander, became humanity's last hope. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear torpedo aboard ...

However, one man—Vasili Arkhipov—refused to authorize the strike, effectively preventing a potential nuclear war. Dark Seas. The Soviet Submarine that Saved the World from a Deadly Special Weapon.

And here was where pure luck intervened. Stuck on a ladder. Staff Captain Vasili Arkhipov and an unnamed sailor aboard B-59 likely prevented World War III from occurring.. As Savitsky tried to ...