Author: arkhipov
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Robert McNamara on the Cuba Missile Crisis
I want to say this and it ‘s very important – in the end we lucked out Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was at President Kennedy’s side during the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis. In this interview excerpt from the 2003 film, The Fog of War, he makes the point, “At the end we lucked…
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27 October Vasily Arkhipov Day
Remembering the man who single-handedly saved the world. Arkhipov was second-in-command aboard the Soviet submarine B-59 which was patrolling near Cuba. The submarine was armed with a torpedo fitted with a nuclear warhead. On 27 October 1962, US Navy ships – unaware that B-59 carried nuclear weapons – began dropping practice depth charges to force…