Leadership Stories
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Nine Hundred and Twenty-Eight Photographs
On October 16, 1962, photo interpreters working above a Washington Ford dealership showed President Kennedy proof of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
The Naval Officer Who Refused to Turn the Key (Vasili Arkhipov, USSR)
One Soviet officer said no to a nuclear torpedo in 1962. Vasili Arkhipov shows how one steady mind can hold back catastrophe.