WeekInTime Issue 34: BOOM...almost.

A Soviet submarine captain helps avert a nuclear war in 1962

They were surrounded. Lying far below the surface, the submarine was trapped, unable to charge its batteries. Determined to force the submarine to the surface, U.S. destroyers dropped explosive devices all around it. To the submarine’s crew, it looked like World War III had already begun. This week in time, one man averted a complete nuclear disaster du…