Vasily Arkhipov: the man who saved the world.
It was probably because he wasn't on Facebook.
It was 1962, and the Cuban Missile Crisis had the world on edge.
Vasily Arkhipov was serving aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine, B-59, parked in international waters near Cuba; he was about to save the world by keeping his cool.
Arkhipov had experience in keeping his cool. A year earlier, he had been the deputy …