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Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social |
HISTORICAL FOOTNOTE: a sailor named Vasili Arkhipov was among the crew of the K-19. The following year, while aboard another submarine operating in international waters off Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he twice prevented the firing of a nuclear torpedo that could have ignited World War III.
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Stephen Schwartz
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After the K-19 returned to service following two years of repairs (its radioactive reactor compartment was dumped into the Kara Sea), the crew nicknamed the submarine “Hiroshima.” It subsequently suffered several additional serious accidents, including two fires and a collision.
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DrGeophysics
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A true hero. RIP.
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