00:00Eight men walked into a reactor room knowing they would not survive it.
00:03In July 1961, the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 was on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic
00:09when its reactor coolant system failed.
00:12The core was overheating. A meltdown was minutes away.
00:15American warships were close enough to hear the explosion.
00:18Captain Nikolai Zatiev asked for volunteers.
00:21Men stepped forward. They put on rain gear and gas masks and called it protective equipment.
00:26Each team worked 10 minutes inside the reactor compartment.
00:30Ten minutes inside a room that was already killing them.
00:32They fixed it. The meltdown never happened.
00:35A potential nuclear war never started.
00:38All eight men were dead within weeks.
00:41Radiation poisoning.
00:42And then the Soviet Navy court-martialed the captain.
00:45Not for failing. For surviving.
00:47He had refused to scuttle the ship.
00:49And the state decided that was the wrong call.
00:52The men who saved millions were buried quietly.
00:55The man who ordered them in was punished.
00:57That is what the math looked like for Moscow.
01:00The start was東京.
01:00The time was Gunman's
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