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During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet sub B-59 was hit by U.S. depth charges; its captain prepared a nuclear torpedo launch. All three senior officers had to agree, but Vasili Arkhipov alone refused. His no is credited with preventing Nuclear war.
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