Life as we know it, in all its forms, and all its grandeur was close to being completely destroyed if this man had not been there in the past. After World War I and World War II, how much damage this earth had to bear, we are all already aware of that. It is also said that if World War III had happened, the earth would have been destroyed by now. So in today's article, we are going to talk about one such person who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear annihilation or World War III.
This was the time in history when the US and the Soviet Union, the two greatest world powers were on the verge of nuclear war. The October Crisis of 1962, or the Cuban Missile Crisis, was considered to be one of the tensest moments in modern history. But in the midst of this deadly crisis, a Soviet Navy officer managed to keep a calm mind and succeeded in averting a nuclear catastrophe.
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Actually, World War III would have just started in 1962 if this man named Vasily Arkhipov had not taken the right decision at the right time? Not many of you are familiar with the name Vasily Arkhipov, but maybe you should be. Nearly every one of us owes our lives to Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet navy officer who made a choice on a submarine that might have prevented a nuclear World War III.
Actually, this Russian soldier had refused to drop a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier on 27 October 1962, which saved the world from a fierce war that had the great potential to turn into a third world war and nuclear annihilation. If he had dropped the missile that day, we might not be alive on earth today.
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