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Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ arˈxʲipəf]; 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998) was a senior Soviet Naval officer who prevented a Soviet submarine from launching a nuclear torpedo against ships of the United States Navy at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October ...
Petrov was born on 7 September 1939 to a Russian family near Vladivostok.His father, Yevgraf, flew fighter aircraft during World War II. [7] His mother was a nurse. [7]Petrov enrolled at the Kiev Military Aviation Engineering Academy of the Soviet Air Forces, and after graduating in 1972 he joined the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
The incident occurred at a time of severely strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. [1] Responding to the Soviet Union's deployment of fourteen SS-20/RSD-10 theatre nuclear missiles, the NATO Double-Track Decision was taken in December 1979 by the military commander of NATO to deploy 108 Pershing II nuclear missiles in Western Europe with the ability to hit targets ...
Three decades ago, the world was on the brink of a nuclear showdown - until Jimmy Carter showed up in North Korea. In June 1994, the former US president arrived for talks in Pyongyang with then ...
Born in New York City on Dec. 24, 1945 — four months after the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II — Meyer grew up in the shadow of the ...
List of pro-nuclear (power) environmentalists; References This page was last edited on 14 May 2024, at ...
In the five decades between 1945 and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out, 1,032 of them by the United States and 715 of them by the ...
The White House Peace Vigil, June 2006 The vigil in July 2012. The White House Peace Vigil is an anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil started by William Thomas in 1981. [1] Thomas believed it to be the longest running uninterrupted anti-war protest in U.S. history.