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Gary Slaughter, a 23-year-old US Navy Ensign, studied the sullen face of Captain Vitali Savitsky at a distance of only 200 feet. Slaughter, the only officer on Cony trained to communicate with the Russian Captain, had one objective: dissuade Savitsky from launching his torpedo tipped with a 15 kiloton nuclear device, which would have precipitated an all-out nuclear exchange that would have destroyed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSea Stories: Memoir of a Naval Officer (1956-1967) spans Slaughter's naval service during the Cold War. 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