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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days and the Decisions That Saved the World
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The Cuban Missile Crisis is often remembered as a confrontation between Kennedy and Khrushchev. The declassified record reveals it was also a confrontation between leaders and their own military establishments. Soviet submarine B-59, depth-charged by US forces, nearly launched a nuclear torpedo — prevented only because three officers had to agree, and one, Vasili Arkhipov, refused. An American U-2 accidentally flew into Soviet airspace during the crisis. A Soviet officer, Stanislav Petrov, would later (1983) prevent a launch-on-warning nuclear strike by correctly judging a computer alert as a false alarm. The nuclear age is as much a story of near-misses as of deterrence.
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