"A guy named Arkhipov saved the world." Vasili Arkhopov was the Russian submarine commander in the Atlantic who on October 27, 1962, personally blocked orders to fire nuclear weapons at either the US mainland or at US ships. What I'm reading doesn't specify which of the two -- but the was ordered to fire nukes during the crisis, and he refused the order. The attack would have ignited nuclear armageddon.
So thanks Arkhipov. =)))))))))))))
-B.
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
"(If so Khrushchev may have saved the world twice -- he definitely did in Oct 63 by acting like the grownup in Cuban Missile Crises and "blinking first" -- probably at the cost of his position as GenSec -- while JFK was apparently willing to blow up the world to show he had balls (couldn't he just have gotten a written testimonial from Marylin Monroe or something?)."