I've read a story about a submarine officer who during the Cuban missile crisis had the orders to launch, he decided not to.
His orders were in a certain circumstance had the orders to launch and he refused, his sub was being kept down by our subs to eventually surface them when they ran out of air, our subs and destroyers did this to nearly all the soviet subs during the standoff.
I don't remember the whole story but it did happen, it was from a source I can't remember where I found, another young Russian submariner died while shutting down a reactor during the episode that was written as the book "Hostile Waters" that was made into a little seen movie.
This young man gave his life and saved the east coast from a nuclear contamination that would have wiped out all marine life for thousands of miles around.
Think about it, all fishing stocks and life destroyed off our east coast for the next couple thousand years, and the migration of poison that would have occurred over time.
They aren't all bad in Russia, we owe our lives to a small handful of them who did the right thing, for whatever reasons, we are still here.
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