Big Bouncing Animu Boobs

T. A. Gardner said:
This guy really, really did save the world from a nuclear war. His single decision not to launch a nuclear torpedo and sink the US carrier USS Randolph during the Cuban Missile Crisis came within seconds of an actual start of a nuclear war.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/r...-cuban-missile-crisis-destroying-world-165747
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admiral)
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/vasili-cuban-missile-crisis.html

At the time, SAC was on high alert, had their bombers in the air on the "Go line" to nuke Russia. US IRBM forces in Europe were ready to launch. The US military was beginning to mobilize. Had he gone along with the submarine B-59's captain and political officer, we would have had a nuclear war.
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To this day, nobody knows what the glitch was. Though I suspect "certain Russians" knew.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Probably just that quality Soviet Union manufacturing... The sort that ended up causing Chernobyl...
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True. Elephant foot. :eek:

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Sailor said:
I liked that movie. Relatively close to the book.
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First book of fiction by the Naval Institute Press.

It came out late in 1984 and in January 1986, I was in the Navy learning Antisubmarine Warfare. The book was shockingly accurate. My new Navy friends and I thought Tom Clancy must have been a CIA analyst like Jack Ryan, not a fucking insurance agent.
 
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