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Nattodesu
I dunno man, I can spread both peace and legs with no conflict of interest.
Varimahtras
His name was Vasili Arkhipov
fairybug
But also legs.
KEbmeistergeneral
Technically everyone "avoided" ww3...cuz noone actually had to fight in it. This guy had a hand in preventing it, semantics.
dontmindmepls
coronalmassejection
He was a Soviet Navy officer when he saved the world..
xro119
this also is worth mentioning here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
TheJazzGhost
He's certainly got a protagonist face.
JustANoobOnImgurWithOneCat
FAKE NEWS: It was a nuclear torpedo that he refused to launch on an American ship from his submarine, not a fucking bomb asshole
MrLoxBagel
*prevented*
betterthandoge
There was a movie made about this..
TheWonderworks
Scrolled down to see if anyone else spends way too much time watching random movies like I do. Was not disappointed.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
I've prevent world war 3 like a million times. I'm too lazy and just roll back over and go back to sleep instead of destroying the world.
Crimsntyd
I commented on this when it was posted prvsly. He didn't AVOID WW3, he AVERTED WW3. Avoid would mean he ran into a bunker to save his ass.
sayfcknwhat
Can...can we spread peace AND legs?
Matrelith
Brendan Fraser is such a talented guy.
Imalwaysready
He avoided dropping one nuclear bomb just to drop George of the Jungle on us anyway a few years later. At best the world broke even.
Barrum
The text makes it seem like he defied orders, he didn't, the command structure was such that firing the torpedo required his consent.
mikeosullivan2360
Is this related to the Bay of Pigs incident of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
MangoPort
He's not unknown at all, thanks to this monthly post getting reposted.
IwishIwasNeverBorn
So he's the reason i'm alive today then... He just had to not destroy the world and ruin everyone's life...
Bysiyan
Heck, I don't do that all the time.
brettmarkley1
Wasn't he in a submarine?
dryerlint777
Wasn't he a submarine?
dgg7
Avoided WW3? More like postponed WW3.
ShilraViuxuz
Yet americunts bombed japan when they were ready to surrender and hitler fleed under political protection.
randomsonglyric
Who wrote that? A ten year old?
KrustyPartiallyGelatinatedNonDairyGumBasedBeverage
There's another Russian who disobeyed orders when a missile detection system was falsely warning of a US attack, refused to retaliate.
KrustyPartiallyGelatinatedNonDairyGumBasedBeverage
Can't remember his name, can't be bothered googling. Someone help me out.
Prebez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
ricerescue
It was in his orer to decide so there was nothing to disobey.
lmsj
I thought we liked spread legs...it makes the sex easier.
HibiscuitsTea
I bet we can spread peace by spreading more legs. I know Im doing my part.
Grimmrog
wars have been fought over that too already.
SimpsonYouDiabolical
His heroism doesn't deserve the grammar of that pic
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pointlessmountain
Sad.
qeyo
not "a chapter less in history books". history at all
UvuvwevwevweOnyetenyevweUgwemubwemOsas
"His Hiroshima doesn't deserve the Nagasaki...." Fuck it I can't make it up.
MrLoxBagel
Yeah, "avoided" needs to be "prevented"
AskingTheRealQuestions
Yup, sounds like World War 3 started and he just got the fuck outta there
VictarionsCrispyArm
It helps to read it like Russian would. Then you see no problem, Comrade.
Alivid
Such is life
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
Komrad*
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
Then you no see*
TinyLiehon
As someone learning Russian: I come to imgur for the exact opposite reason damnit
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
When you see Putin, tell him I said I'm ready for his embrace
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
Helps to read like Russian*
BiteTheHandsThatThieve
You seem to be an expert on speaking with Russians... Hey wait a minute!
skyph2048
There's still letters that shouldn't be capitalized in the pic, so it doesn't fix tbaf
mandadadada
Tbaf ? To be a fart?
SparkyBangstick
He was a navy officer, and only officer on his sub who voted no on nuclear usage. Thus preventing it's usage.
Wgasa
This happened quite a lot by the way
falloutboy33
Wasn't a vote. He was in charge of the entire sub fleet and equal in authority as the capt of the sub he was 1st officer on.
d0o0o0d
1st Officer or Political Officer? Was under the impression that only the Political Officer could overrule the Captain.
unknownSubscriber
They take votes?
Imalwaysready
Yeah, the ONE time Russia decides the democratic process is the way to go is in refusing to launch nuclear missiles against orders?
LiterallyWorseThanHitler
Iirc, the protocol was that the decision to use the nuclear weapons had to be unanimous between the three highest-ranking officers
CryptBeast
It's Soviet Union - they voted on everything. Who's gonna be President, whether to start nuclear war, if babies should be eaten with salt...
DrzBa42
In the west, military don't practice democracy, they defend it; in Soviet Union, they didn't defend democracy, but they practiced it...
ISHKEBEH2017
yes, all 3 needed to sign off on it
TacosPlz
I believe communications were cut off from Moscow or something.
TheGodDamnDownvoteFairy
You believe right, and due to the cut communications, the two other officers thought that the nuclear war must've begun
Dysseus
He was first officer. He withheld his key so they couldn't launch.
tarataqa
I've seen that movie!
Prebez
I posted that guy on his birthday. Never got a single upvote. Then I posted an image of some big tits which got to the frontpage.
yupiyei
You had no story.
Michealbay
Imgur: simple image sharing site. Guess what most people like to look at.
Valj
Giana Michaels. Excellent choice.
giveintome
Upvoted, but this post has a handsome picture of him as a young man. Probably why you didn't get a lot of upvotes, Sex sells
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chunkcheezy
Who dat
Misslnformation
I see no boobies
BoomIgotyourwalletBoomIgotyourphilliestickets
Maybe she did save the world that day
Craftworks
Probably because he's Russian and isn't a chauvinistic, Hollywood, Dc, Marvel (lous) all American hero...
ChubbyElvis
yeah, I'm gonna need to see that pic with big tits in order to verify its front page worthiness
BobbyBobbston
Well we like birds
Somanyquestions
Next time post an image of him with big tits.
IThinkYouGotAFineBrainJack
I would like to know which big tits prevented World War III.
Azated
Evolution. Tits > life itself.
PlushtoysEveryWhere
Please give us the screenshot of that bigtits post.
ASentientToaster
Welcome to Imgur mate!
MisterSausage
I wasn't going to upvote your comment until you said big tits. Now I feel compelled to do so.
Imalwaysready
In WW3s vs Double-Ds I can tell you who's going to win on this site every time. WW3 could be starting, and tits would still get more votes.
aSheepAmongWolves
Browsing your posts to find the big tits
Zer0th
Was it random boobs or your boobs?
CrossBetween
Confirmed. Nice hooters, btw.
unclegrampy
I didn't see any big tits!
TheBIFFALLO87
That post clearly has 11 points.
Prebez
I got those after my comment here today :D
SexuallyAwkwardDonkey
Can confirm comment
budthespudfromthebrightredmud
Can confirm comment confirming previous comment.
sanguine25
Can confirm comment confirming previous comment confirming previous comment.
HaveYouSeenJeff
Can touch nose with tip of tongue
ralgazurthedestroyerofworlds
thatjamieguy94
Big tits you say
thewalkingdebt
Tell me more
JumpingBalogna
Tell me more
TanithRosenbaum
"More"
yzmotoxer807
Does he look like a bitch?
HaveYouSeenJeff
Read that comment thread to the tune of that "grease" song. "Tell me more tell me more does he look-like a bitch?" :P
delpharseven
The text is oh so wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov He was a naval officer on a submarine and it was a nuclear torpedo.
DarkSpyro7
It was a nuclear ballistic missile, not a torpedo.
Jepalaudsadsin
Glad someone on this site knows their history.
tarataqa
Rose Park didn't die for this!
PeePeeFrictionPleasure
This was the plot line on the final battle of X-Men: First Class if I remember correctly, right?
Imalwaysready
I heard it was on Klendathu and it was a Tactical Oxygen Nuke grenade.
TyDugganWrites
And it wasn't just him, right? It wasn't everyone serving under him too, yeah?
delpharseven
We'll never know what the crew would have done had the senior officers given the order.
alteriron
"Oh shit our sub was sighted welp better fire a nuclear torpedo amd start world war 3." Is that how the military works? God help us
delpharseven
Yes, sometimes decisions with those kinds of consequences are in the hands of just a few people.
Cananadamn
I thought he was for it and others had to talk him down
delpharseven
No, he was the sole vote to not fire among the three senior officers required to agree to give the order.
TheThadCastleSandwich
I love a good history burn
shushkaboob
Well one nuclear torpedo would've made America go into baboon mode and start unleashing the fury of 1000 goats
LokiKingOfJotunheim
It's actually questionable on whether the event even happened. The only source of the story was the communications intelligence officer...
Imalwaysready
Seriously. Sounds almost like post hoc "see, we could be rational good guys; did you know we secretly prevented WWIII?" Russian propaganda.
KrytenKoro
Anything better than disobeying the president and setting the launch codes to 000000 would make a country better than america
KrytenKoro
Honestly the generals who did that should be shot for treason
Prebez
Shit! He was on K-19 too! Bussy guy.
EhIsForCanehdians
I didn't know they made nuclear torpedos, seems less effective than missiles and bombs.
mistersaIvage
Probably intended for anti-ship. It doesn't need to hit to devastate a ship
wandergeist
Have you not played Battleship? How quickly do you win if "B6" becomes "the whole damn board"? https://youtu.be/VXkVZ0rloio
LokiKingOfJotunheim
Nuclear torpedoes were mainly designed to take out naval bases via a tsunami that would also irradiate the shoreline.
TheyHunger
Only the T-15. It was abandoned for smaller versions targeted for anti-ship/sub warfare.
LiterallyWorseThanHitler
Well, you could take out a whole battlegroup with a single torpedo...
711isAnInsideJob
They're great for nuking the whales
Vernietiging
Depends on the nuke size. Military planned to plant a line of nuclear devices along the US coast to trigger the devastating tsunami ...
Vernietiging
... in case US will start a war against USSR. Sakharov was the one who strongly opposed the idea.
tallbo
Depends what the target is. I imagine you could almost create a tsunami also
psychmaster
Not almost, most definitely would create if not technically a tsunami a large af wave
HoracioPagani
In case you were wondering, the consensus says no tsunami caused by nuclear weapons, directly.
HoracioPagani
Not being argumentative https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/pg9fn/would_a_100mt_underwater_nuclear_detonation/
SurelyNotHitler
Redirect notice! Neat!
Imalwaysready
People generally grossly underestimate how much force the Earth generates. Even a minor quake is magnitudes more than any nuke man's made.
pearada04
Do they mean a submarine launched ballistic missile? The British use those as their nuclear deterrent
removekarling
Can't knock out our nuclear capabilities if you don't know where they are
2shortplanks
No, they literally mean a nuclear torpedo, launched the same way as the standard conventional torpedoes.
dogenuggets
You'd better be pretty far away from your target then. Are torpedoes even self-guided?
LiterallyWorseThanHitler
Modern ones are sonar-guided, they either home in on the noise the target makes, or can actively ping it.
AndersM8
They put nuclear warheads in everything during the cold war.
KingZullu
They had nuclear infantry weapons on Cuba during the missile crisis.
dogenuggets
"Just wait until you try my delicious Chocolate Surprise cakes..."
OliverClothesoff70
I can see how a nuke torpedo could be considered useful. With one hit, you could take out several enemy ships if they're in formation.
LokiKingOfJotunheim
They were mainly meant to take out naval bases via a tsunami created by the blast.
Trassation
Or if they're out of formation.
MagnetBox
They were meant to take out fast, deep diving subs that were hard to get a direct hit on with regular torpedoes of the time.
MagnetBox
Modern, more accurate and agile conventional torpedoes rendered them completely obsolete.
AzgarOgly
Less effective against what? If you are shooting a ship or a submarine submerged, it might be far better than a bomb.
EhIsForCanehdians
It's always been my understanding that nuclear weapons were made to take out huge areas densely populated.
delpharseven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29
AzgarOgly
You have being mistaken. Devastating populated areas is one of the task of strategic nuclear weapons. That serves deterrence purpose: //
AzgarOgly
enemy would think multiple times before attacking someone able to wipe his major cities out. But there is another, purely military purpose//