The unsung hero who prevented WW3 in 1962, Vasili Aleksandrovič Arkhipov

Vasily Alexandrovich was a Soviet Navy officer credited with casting the single vote that prevented a Soviet nuclear strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Such an attack likely would have caused a major global thermonuclear response which, could have destroyed much of the world…..

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