In October 1962 our world came very close to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now known as ...

However, one man—Vasili Arkhipov—refused to authorize the strike, effectively preventing a potential nuclear war.

The person in my project is about Vasili Arkhipov, and the critical decision he made.” Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer who prevented a Soviet submarine from launching a nuclear torpedo against U.S ...

Captain Vasili Arkhipov-like person comes as luck personified. It’s left to chance. We remain ever-vulnerable, probably much to the glee of the politically ambitious, for who ends justify the means.

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 ...

From Everything Must Go, I learned that this is largely due to two Soviet officers, Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, who in 1962 and 1983, respectively, prevented the onset of full scale ...

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 ...