Vasily Arhipov / Svetlana Sovranskaya (quoted interview excerpts)
Contributions in the episode include accounts related to Soviet submarine B-59: Vasily Arhipov is presented as the Soviet submarine officer whose decisions averted escalation, while Svetlana Sovranskaya appears as an archival researcher/interviewer recounting those events.
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Jan 26, 2026 • 40min
Kennedy and Khrushchev: 9. Black Saturday
Vasily Arhipov, the Soviet submarine officer whose calm decisions averted catastrophe, and Svetlana Sovranskaya, an archival researcher recounting the B-59 crisis. Renata Keller, historian of hemispheric Cold War dynamics, provides context on Cuban tensions and regional fallout. They discuss U-2 shootdowns, near-launches from submarines, frantic Kremlin-White House exchanges, and the fraught paths leaders chose to step back from nuclear war.
