Originally Posted by jgw
If I remember correctly, when Russia ordered a sub to nuclear bomb the United States, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a single officer, on that sub, said "NO' and stopped a nuclear war. He is considered a hero.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-man-who-saved-the-world-about-this-episode/871/

One can only hope? (I know - wishful thinking AND unlikely)

Yup, I told my son about him, Vasili Arkhipov, the man who saved the world from thermonuclear war, last night when we were discussing the possibility of WW3.

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