The B-59 submarine incident

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1. Story
2. The Soviet submarine B-59, submerged near the quarantine line, out of radio contact and being forced to the surface by practice depth charges from American destroyers, carried a nuclear-armed torpedo. Accounts assembled decades later from participants hold that its use was proposed aboard and was not authorised, because the concurrence of the flotilla chief of staff, Vasili Arkhipov, who happened to be on that boat, was required and was refused. The episode was unknown in the West for around forty years. It rests substantially on participant testimony rather than documents, and how close the release actually came is disputed.
3. Knowledge
4. Vasili Arkhipov
5. The Cuban missile crisis
6. The B-59 submarine incident
7. Connections
8. Vasili Arkhipov
9. The Cuban missile crisis
10. Vasili Arkhipov
11. The Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link
12. John F. Kennedy
13. Nikita Khrushchev
14. A U-2 photographs missile construction in western Cuba
15. Cuba
16. The San Cristóbal medium-range missile sites
17. John F. Kennedy
18. Nikita Khrushchev
19. The Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft
20. The B-59 submarine incident
21. The B-59 submarine incident
22. The B-59 submarine incident
23. Evidence
24. Named as the principal declassified-document collection behind this pack's account of the crisis, the B-59 submarine incident and the later disclosures about tactical warheads on the island. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted — nsarchive.gwu.edu is blocked by the environment's egress proxy. Everything this pack says about the crisis is from standing knowledge of the published historiography, and the degree of documentary support for the B-59 account in particular is not established here.