Vasili Arkhipov

Vasili Arkhipov

1926-01-30
72 (1998-08-19)

Vasili Arkhipov was a Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a nuclear strike and potentially all-out nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

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Vasili Arkhipov was a Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a nuclear strike and potentially all-out nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

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The Untold History Of The United States 2012 (8.193)

Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
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The Man Who Saved the World 2012 (7)

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war and total destruction.
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Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.