And the person who likely did more than anyone else to prevent that dangerous day from becoming an existential catastrophe was a quiet Soviet naval officer named Vasili Arkhipov. On that day ...

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 ...

Vasili Arkhipov was born into a peasant family near Moscow in 1926. After serving as a minesweeper in World War II, he began working aboard Soviet submarines in 1947, rising through the ranks ...

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 ...

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

However, one man—Vasili Arkhipov—refused to authorize the strike, effectively preventing a potential nuclear war. Colorado senate's override of a veto by Gov. Jared Polis leads to schism at ...

This germ of a story piqued my curiosity, and I commenced to research the incident further, discovering that the submarine was B-59, and the officer who blocked the order was Vasili Arkhipov.