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TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the captain of a Russian sub, not knowing whether war had broken out, decided to launch a nuclear torpedo. Vasila Arkhipov, the second-in-command, didn’t consent and convinced the captain to surface, preventing nuclear war.

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