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Vasily Arkhipov and the Torpedo That Ended Nothing
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On October 27, 1962, one Soviet officer's refusal to fire a nuclear torpedo may have saved the world — but the full story of what brought the crisis to that moment is far more tangled than history remembers. This episode traces the arc from the U-2 photographs over San Cristóbal to the secret Jupiter deal that nobody was told about for decades.
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There's a moment on October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two, that most Americans have never heard of. A Soviet submarine sits in international waters off the coast of Cuba.
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