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The Person who saved the World

Some saviors remain undercover for years
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The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a circus of naive moves by the United States and the Soviet Union. Both countries acted very unwisely. For example, in 1961, the US tried to invade Cuba to remove Castro. Equally, the following year, Khrushchev, in response, placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. This likely led to preemptive nuclear war. However, the US and the Soviet Union reached an agreement in which the Soviet Union would take its missiles from Cuba, while the US would withdraw its missiles from Turkey. The US also agreed that it would never invade Cuba. A Soviet submarine in the Caribbean part of seven submarines was sent in response of the crisis. This submarine needed to be withdrawn, so when it was going back, some stupid soldiers of the US Navy and Air Force threw hand grenades as a celebration. The explosions reflected to the submarine that it was under attack, and a war was started. This is the only submarine in the squad equipped with nuclear torpedoes. The captain of the submarine ordered to launch the nuclear torpedo. However, one person senior to the captain in the submarine believed on his instincts that a war is not started.…

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