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RackyRackerton t1_jd5oq7a wrote

Reply to comment by Norwegian27 in Vasili Arkhipov (1960's). During the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. by AdAway2224

Two Russian men “saved America” because they stopped other Russian men from launching a barrage of nukes at the US? Lmaoooo.

By that logic an American man saves every country in the world every day because we could be launching nukes all the time but choose not to.

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ifhrsmbhiam t1_jd5nedo wrote

Reply to comment by szmandalawguy in My old man circa 1985 by 2seamcutter

Also. Mine was maroon with flat black trim. Loved that car, looking back it was miracle I didn’t kill my self. Back end would cut loose in a heartbeat. Could roast Irocs in a straight line, but got nailed in the corners.

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Foreverbanevading t1_jd5lbu2 wrote

Reply to comment by Norwegian27 in Vasili Arkhipov (1960's). During the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. by AdAway2224

Saved America? He saved the world. The entire world. All of history and — at least for the moment — the future. A nuclear strike on the USA would have ended with 20,000 weapons traded from either side and would have pulled in the rest of the NPT family. It would have left us in at best a pre-Columbian level of technology. Sticks. Rocks. Grass. Farming. Nothing would have been left and we’d have likely had to reinvent knowledge itself due to the loss of ~95% of the world’s population.

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