do yall mfs know Vasily Arkhipov

the dude who literally stopped nuclear armageddon during the cuban shit

By then, there had been no contact from Moscow for a number of days, and although the B-59’s crew had been picking up U.S. civilian radio broadcasts earlier on, the submarine was too deep to monitor any radio traffic, as it was busy trying to hide from its American pursuers. Those on board did not know whether war had broken out or not. The captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigoryevich Savitsky, decided that a war might already have started and wanted to launch a nuclear torpedo.

Typically, Soviet submarines armed with the “Special Weapon” only required the captain and the political officer to authorize a nuclear launch, but unlike the other submarines in the flotilla, all three officers on board the B-59 had to agree in order to authorize the launch. The officers who needed to agree to the nuclear launch were captain Savitsky, political officer Ivan Semyonovich Maslennikov, and executive officer Arkhipov.

An argument broke out between the three of them, with only Arkhipov against the launch