On the Brink of a Nuclear Disaster: Cuban Missile Crisis | History To Sleep To

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October 1962. While Americans watched baseball's World Series and prepared for Halloween, their world teetered on the precipice of nuclear annihilation. Soviet missiles armed with nuclear warheads sat concealed in Cuban jungle clearings, aimed at American cities just minutes away. President John F. Kennedy calculated the odds of nuclear catastrophe at "one in three, maybe higher." Former Defense Secretary William Perry would later admit: "I believed every day was going to be my last day on Earth."
For thirteen excruciating days, two superpowers engaged in the most dangerous game of brinkmanship in human history. Beneath Caribbean waters, a Soviet submarine captain prepared to launch a nuclear torpedo at American warships. In the Florida Straits, invasion forces assembled while Soviet commanders in Cuba received authorization to use tactical nuclear weapons. One miscalculation, one moment of panic, one failure of communication could have triggered the apocalypse.
This is the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis—the moment when rational leaders, incomplete intelligence, and sheer luck determined whether civilization would survive October 1962. What we thought we knew about those thirteen days was merely the beginning. The full truth, revealed decades later, is far more terrifying.

01:40 - Cold War History: Cuban Missile Crisis
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