13 Days From Nuclear War The Cuban Missile Crisis

In October 1962, an American spy plane photographed Soviet nuclear missiles 90 miles from Florida. For thirteen days, the world stood on the edge of nuclear war — and the most dangerous moment happened deep beneath the sea. This is the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Khrushchev's secret plan, Kennedy's impossible choices, the naval quarantine, Black Saturday, and the Soviet officer whose single "no" may have saved the world. CHAPTERS 00:00 Opening 00:41 The Road to the Brink 02:41 The Discovery 04:11 The Quarantine 06:00 Black Saturday 08:05 The Way Out 08:58 Epilogue Arabic audio track available: Settings gear icon-- Audio track - Arabic. SOURCES & CREDITS Archive images: U.S. National Archives, JFK Library, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, NASA and others via Wikimedia Commons public domain unless noted. "SAM S-75 Dvina" by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "ITT Intelex Teletype" by Jim Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Maps: NASA Blue Marble -public domain. Music: "Long Note Four", "Lightless Dawn", "Echoes of Time v2", "Dark Times", "Despair and Triumph" — Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #CubanMissileCrisis #ColdWar #History