How, when and where?
2006-08-20 13:44:48 · 7 answers · asked by ole_gimlet_eye 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
On October 27, 1962, a Soviet submarine officer named Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov reportedly refused to comply with the launch of a nuclear warhead while under attack by a U.S. warship near Cuba
September 26, 1983, when Soviet early warning system showed that a US ICBMs attack had been launched. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, in command of the monitoring facility put the warning down to computer error and did not notify his superiors, who would have most probably launched a counter-attack.
2006-08-20 14:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know the Soviet officer in 1962 saved the world by not agreeing with the other two Soviet officers to launch nuclear missiles from a submarine they were riding in from the USSR to Cuba, while coming under attack during the Bay of Pigs incident. Don't know about the incident in '83 though, did it have to do with Afghanistan?
2006-08-20 13:54:12 · answer #2 · answered by tallestbeauty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about '62 and '83 but I do know of one in '91.
2006-08-20 13:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew_K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stanislav Petrov was the one in 83'
2006-08-20 13:54:42 · answer #4 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they did not save the world, they saved the u.s.. i only wish i had been there.....
2006-08-20 14:26:10 · answer #5 · answered by sikn_shadow_420 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea
2006-08-20 13:55:55 · answer #6 · answered by iamwelndowd1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, what?
2006-08-20 13:48:57 · answer #7 · answered by mariana m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋