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Michael Novakhov retweeted: On this day in 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, a naval officer of the USSR refused to fire a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier, thus averting the Cuban missile crisis and thus, thermo-nuclear destruction across the planet. #OnThisDay #USSR #NuclearWeapon

Michael Novakhov retweeted:

On this day in 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, a naval officer of the USSR refused to fire a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier, thus averting the Cuban missile crisis and thus, thermo-nuclear destruction across the planet.

#OnThisDay #USSR #NuclearWeapon

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Michael Novakhov retweeted:

On this day in 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, a naval officer of the USSR refused to fire a nuclear torpedo at an American aircraft carrier, thus averting the Cuban missile crisis and thus, thermo-nuclear destruction across the planet.

#OnThisDay #USSR #NuclearWeapon

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