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Vasily Arkhipov

Sixty years ago the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted and nuclear war came close; Vasily Arkhipov saved the world.

On October 14, 1962, a U.S. U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba revealed that the Soviet Union was building ramps for the installation of missiles with nuclear warheads. President Kennedy immediately ordered a naval blockade of Cuba. The most serious…