00:00October 1962. A Soviet submarine sat crippled at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:06U.S. warships had been dropping depth charges for hours.
00:09The crew had no idea if war had started.
00:12The radio was dead. The heat inside reached over 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:17Men were passing out. Some were hallucinating.
00:20The captain made a decision. He was going to fire the nuclear torpedo.
00:24Soviet protocol required three senior officers to agree.
00:28The first said yes.
00:30The second said yes.
00:31The third officer was Vasily Arkhipov.
00:35He said no. That was it. That was the moment.
00:38Not a war room. Not a president at a red foam.
00:41A half-conscious man inside a broken submarine, refusing to sign off.
00:46The captain backed down. The torpedo stayed locked.
00:49Nobody outside that submarine knew any of this for nearly 40 years.
00:53The men were old before the story came out.
00:56One vote. One word.
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