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Birth
I was born on January 30th, 1926 to a poor, peasant family near Moscow in the town of Staraya Kupavna -
Hero Award
I was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union -
K-19 Accident
In July 1961, I was appointed deputy commander or executive officer of the new Hotel-class ballistic missile submarine K-19. the submarine developed an extreme leak in its reactor coolant system.Commander Zateyer ordered the seven members of our engineer crew to come up with a solution to avoid nuclear meltdown. This required us to work in high radiation levels for extended periods. -
kennedy
Kennedy never took the time to explain to the people of Okinawa why he had turned their island into the first Asian territory to become a target for nuclear war, the first Asian territory to have these weapons on its soil. -
Arkhipov refused
Only Arkhipov refused to authorize the captain's use of nuclear torpedos against the United States Navy, a decision requiring the agreement of all three senior officers aboard. -
involvement incuban missile crisis
I was in a group of 11 United States navy destroyers and aircraft carrier USS Randolph. I was also commander of the B-59 submarine. -
vasile
the U.S. version of events, the crisis starts on October 15 withphotographic confirmation that the Soviet Union had secretly built sites for medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missiles on Cuba -
Refusing to fight
I was the one person who refused to start a devastating nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States.I did not believe in such a war. -
Refused a war
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov was the one person who refused to start a devastating nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States -
Khrushchev sending missles to cuba
The reason that Khrushchev sent missiles to Cuba was becasue the Soviet Union lacked a credible long range ICBM deterrent against a possible US attack. -
possible mutual destruction
The u.s. and the soviet union were on the brink of possible mutual destruction