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4:05 pm
Tue October 16, 2012

Secrets of the Dead: The Man Who Saved The World

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Credit Courtesy of Bedlam Productions
Dramatized scene of B-59 commanding officer informing his crew about the mission.
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Credit Courtesy of U.S. Navy Photographers
Photograph of Soviet submarine B-59
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Credit Courtesy of M. Yarovskaya, A. Labunskaya
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer, who, during the Cuban Missile Crisis prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo and therefore a possible nuclear war.
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Re-enactment of the tense moment aboard Soviet submarine B-59 when the hero refuses to give the captain permission to fire the nuclear missile.
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Dramatized scene of Soviet submarine B-59 crew meeting in the map room.

This intimate and intense film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians desperately sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster. The program combines tense drama with eyewitness accounts and expert testimony about a critical event during the Cold War.

Airs Tuesday, October 23, at 8pm on Channel 5.

Watch the full episode.