Miracles Happen: Thank Russian Missile Officer Stanislav Petrov for Your Life Today and the Chance of Another One

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7. That would be Submarine B-59's Deputy Captain: Vasili Arkhipov

Who, in this picture, looks to be the identical twin of Lt Col Petrov? To me, ears, left eye and width of face do seem different tho? Hopefully no one has been mislabeled! Pictures of them when older look quite different.
https://futureoflife.org/recent-news/55-years-preventing-nuclear-attack-arkhipov-honored-inaugural-future-life-award/

Previously he had saved submarine K-19 from a nuclear meltdown—and was exposed to high doses of radiation which likely led to his early death.
https://www.historytools.org/stories/vasili-arkhipov-the-unsung-hero-who-saved-the-world-from-nuclear-annihilation

60 years ago today, this man stopped the Cuban missile crisis from going nuclear

… On October 27 [1962], the Russian sub B-59, which had been running submerged for days, was cornered by 11 US destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph. The US ships began dropping depth charges around the sub.

The intention wasn’t to destroy it but to force it to surface, as US officials had already informed Moscow. But unknown to Washington, the officers aboard B-59 were out of contact with their superiors and had every reason to believe that their American counterparts were trying to sink them…

…The end in this case meant not just the fate of the submarine and its crew, but potentially the entire world. Cut off from outside contact, buffeted by depth charges, its air conditioning broken, and temperatures and carbon dioxide levels rising in the sub, the most obvious conclusion for the officers of B-59 was that global war had already begun. But the sub had a weapon at its disposal that US officers didn’t know about: a 10-kiloton nuclear torpedo. And its officers had permission from their superiors to launch it without confirmation from Moscow…

…Thankfully, the captain didn’t have sole discretion over the launch. All three senior officers had to agree, and Vasili Arkhipov, the 36-year-old second captain and brigade chief of staff, refused to give his assent. He convinced the sub’s top officers that the depth charges were indeed meant to signal B-59 to surface — there was no other way for the US ships to communicate with the Soviet sub — and that launching the nuclear torpedo would be a fatal mistake. The sub returned to the surface, headed away from Cuba, and steamed back toward the Soviet Union…

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/10/27/23426482/cuban-missile-crisis-basilica-arkhipov-nuclear-war

History is so much more complicated that Jingoists would have one believe. Hopefully we will again survive their lies and false beliefs.