#arkhipov — Public Fediverse posts
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Stanislav #Petrov Day should -- obviously I think -- be celebrated by living like it's your last. For all you know it could be!
From the morning after to the twin feasts of #Bassett and #Arkhipov -- October 27th and 28th respectively -- we mark the month of #Ramadoom by acknowledging the thin veneer of what passes for civilization and reflecting on the existential threat our species poses to all known life in the universe.
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#OnThisDate 61 years ago in this timeline, Vasily Aleksandrovich #Arkhipov (#Архипов) averted a global thermonuclear war.
During the cuba crisis he vetoed the launch of a nuclear torpedo. The captain and the two other authorizing officers agreed to launch because they thought that a nuclear war had broken out.