Send us Fan Mail On October 27, 1962, the world almost ended. While the Cuban Missile Crisis raged on land, a terrifying showdown was happening deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This is the incredible true story of Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet Navy officer who single-handedly prevented the outbreak of World War III. Trapped inside the suffocating, overheated Soviet submarine B-59, the crew was cut off from Moscow and under depth-charge attack by the US Navy. Believing nuclear war ha...
