Narrator
Self - Junior Navigator, B59 Submarine
Self - Wife of Vasili Arkhipov
Self - Anti-submarine Warfare Officer, USS Cony (as Andrew Bradick)
Self - Communications Officer, USS Cony
Self - Director, National Security Archive (as Thomas Blanton)
Self - Captain, B4 Submarine
Self - White House Advisor (as John Stoessinger)
Vasili Arkhipov
Submarine Captain
Leoneko
Self (archive footage)
Self - Radio operator, B-59 (archive footage)