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Vasily Arkhipov and the Torpedo That Wasn't Fired
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On Black Saturday, a Soviet naval officer in a crippled submarine refused to launch a nuclear torpedo — and the world never knew. This episode traces the Cuban Missile Crisis from the U-2 photographs to the secret Jupiter deal that ended it.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
On October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two, a Soviet naval officer sitting in a crippled submarine said no to a nuclear torpedo launch. Nobody outside that vessel knew it happened.
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