Secrets Of The Dead: The Man Who Saved The World.

This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster. The program combines tense drama with eyewitness accounts and 
expert testimony about a critical event during the Cold War.

Links to episode & transcript:

Episode:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/episodes/the-man-who-saved-the-world-watch-th…

Transcript:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/the-who-saved-the-world-program-t…

Link to Guardian Article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-stopped-n…

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