War Stories

The soldier who saved the world from nuclear destruction (October 27, 1962) (4x12)

Air date: Dec 15, 2020

On October 27, 1962, deep in the Sargasso Sea in the Caribbean, the captain of a Soviet submarine gave the order to fire the "special weapon". The nuclear torpedo, with a power equivalent to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, must destroy the American fleet located in the Caribbean. While the weapon is ready for launch, and the world is about to fall into a Third World War, a man will oppose the decision. Discover the story of Vasily Arkhipov, the Russian submariner who saved the world from nuclear destruction.