How to Pronounce Vasily Arkhipov (vice admiral)
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Jan 30, 1926 Died on 19 Aug 1998 (aged 72)
Soviet naval officer
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About Vasily Arkhipov Vice Admiral
- Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: ??????? ????????????? ???????, IPA: [v?'s?il??j ?l??k'sandr?v??t? ar'xip??f], 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998) was a Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a Soviet nuclear strike (and, presumably, all-out nuclear war) during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Such an attack likely would have caused a major global thermonuclear response.As flotilla commander and second-in-command of the diesel powered submarine B-59, Arkhipov refused to authorize the captain's use of nuclear torpedoes against the United States Navy, a decision requiring the agreement of all three senior officers aboard.
- In 2002, Thomas Blanton, who was then director of the US National Security Archive, said that Arkhipov "saved the world".
