c/didyoueverhear · by larrymartin@lemmy.world · 2yDid you know The man who avoided world War 3. 60 points · 12 comments · view on lemmy.world
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wheres_my_pinata@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Naval officer, not army.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
larrymartin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Thanks 😇
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
Also not a bomb. A short range nuclear torpedo or SRBM depending on which source you pull from. Most likely the former.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
There should be a petition to name a ship after him for the service to humanity and maybe a bit because Russia will spontaneously combust in anger.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
Another hero who averted WWIII in 1983 when he refused to believe an early warning system and went against protocol was Stanislav Petrov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
There was a couple times a Russian was supposed to "push the button" and didn't. And probably a lot more that aren't common knowledge.
Sometimes they thought it was a bug, sometimes they thought just Russia being obliterated was better than the whole world.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
Soviet Union*
Poland, Ukraine and Baltic States would be obliterated too
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Nah, if anything I probably over estimated.
The incidents I've heard about was all false reports of a single nuke coming to Russia.
And the operator who's procedures required them to launch a counter strike just didn't do it.
No country is dumb enough to start nuclear Armageddon with a single nuke. It's kind of an "all or nothing" thing, so a single nuke is likely a glitch.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
A legendary hero for our times.
There's a wisdom in being willing to just wait another minute and then another when there's no obvious good options.
bi_tux@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Didn't exist in the fallout universe tho
awwwyissss@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Pretty great that the Soviet Union almost caused a global apocalypse several times.
thehazel_nutt@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y
Limitless_screaming@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
You don't think that the super power would have sat there, silently watching the nukes coming towards them right?