#1 - Vasili Arkhipov... a RUSSIAN... saved every single sorry butt on EARTH,  in 1962.
#2 - There are top secret weapons in 2017 that make nuclear bombs look like tinker toys. Anybody who doubts that: you just go on thinking the 'common man' knows exactly what super-power countries do and do not have, because after all, ignorance is BLISS!