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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 ...
List of pro-nuclear (power) environmentalists; References This page was last edited on 14 May 2024, at ...
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 ...
James Peck (December 19, 1914 – July 12, 1993 [1] [2]) was an American activist who practiced nonviolent resistance during World War II [3] and in the Civil Rights Movement. He is the only person who participated in both the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 and the first Freedom Ride of 1961, [ 4 ] and has been called a white civil rights ...
Harvey Franklin Wasserman (born December 31, 1945) is an American journalist, author, democracy activist, and advocate for renewable energy.He has been a strategist and organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States since 1973, and in the election protection movement since 2004.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — An "iron curtain" has descended here. Residents near a Cold War-era nuclear bomb shelter are wondering what the property's new owners are doing on the other side of the chain ...