However, the protocol required unanimous approval from the submarine’s officers. Vasili Arkhipov, the flotilla commodore, refused to consent, persuading Savitsky to surface instead. -This ...

You many not be familiar with the name Vasili Arkhipov, but maybe you should be. He's the Soviet Navy man who stopped nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the '60s. Arkhipov, AKA the man ...