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How 1 Russian Submarine During the Cuban Missile Crisis Nearly Started World War IIIThe blockade created a steel ring around four diesel-electric Foxtrot-class submarines-- the B-4, B-36, B-130, and B-59, each armed with one nuclear-capable T-5 torpedo and boasting a total ...
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Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962During the crisis, the Soviet Union had sent four of its Foxtrot-class submarines to the crisis area. Each submarine carried 22 two-ton torpedoes. Unbeknownst to the U.S., one of those 22 ...
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