How These Submarines Nearly Caused the Cuban Missile Crisis to Go Nuclear
There were a lot of close calls that were not revealed until later. Key point: Russia had nuclear-armed submarines and they nearly panicked and used their weapons. Here is what happened. It is commonly accepted that the world has never come closer to nuclear war than during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the United States confronted Soviet Union over its deployment of ballistic nuclear missiles to Cuba. But in popular imagination, the decisions for war would have come from national leaders sitting in the comfort of executive offices in Washington or Moscow. In fact, that decision was nearly ...
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