Cuban Missile Crisis - Black Saturday - Extra History - Part 3

📜 History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: With simultaneous nuclear tests by both the US and Russia, and tense miscommunications among troops on the ground, in the air, and on the water, the doomsday clock ticked to 11:59 PM for one fateful day.

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[extrahistory]

These world leaders had begun the Cuban missile crisis thinking of politics as a chessboard, a game of moves and counter-moves. But by the end they realized, almost too late, that they were throwing dice.

[JohnSmith-cocp]

Hats off to Vasili Arkhipov, the man who saved the world.

[TrevorEngineer]

"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."
-Carl Sagan

[diwieolaten]

I absolutely love the political neutrality in this series, you are doing a good job at making both sides sound reasonable.

[OneTrueWindfall]

The number of near misses during that crisis were ridiculous. Humanity used up a great deal of its luck during those days. From a single stubborn man on a submarine saying no, to a lost pilot miraculously finding his way home alive, the entire world somehow managed to remain standing above oblivion.

[lptotheskull]

It's very strange how both men really don't want to start a war, but both think the other would go to war in a heartbeat.

[preoklenthe]

Am I the only one that was completely surprised at that moment of animation in which Dan closes his hand around the chess piece and turns it into a dice?
Like, actual animation? In THE Extra Credits?
Kudos to the team.

[stevenclark]

"They've signaled it with grenades" well that's a phrase you don't hear every day.

[misterbubbles]

Vasili Arkhipov: one of the few people in history whose actions literally saved the world. He kept a cool head about the situation, even after 48 hours in a dark and sweltering submarine with no way of knowing what was going on. What a legend.

[militustoica]

I had no idea Robert Kennedy died so gracefully.

[CarlosIsDown]

"everything's going to be ok"

I'm not crying. YOU'RE CRYING!

[zagboygamez]

“2 minutes to midnight...”




That sent chills down my spine for sure.

[Albursine-]

I was born after the majority of the cold war tension. Having never lived under that umbrella of fear I've not been able to relate to my older relatives or friends on this subject.

This series chilled my core. I don't think ill ever fully understand what it was like then, and I hope that I nor any one else ever has to.

Thanks for making this.

[lexer_]

I knew everything said in this video about the cold war before but I still didn't regret watching it a second. Your ability to write compelling short stories is as good as recapping the important parts of history in a really tight format. Taking artistic freedom to create tension is really great at this level of history. I've seen one of the most boring documentation about exactly this most nerve wrecking part of history. I bet that is the main reason why so few know about these sometimes so vitally important events.

[m.bukhori]

Khrushchev: "Hey, you know if you remove your missiles from Turkey, we'd remove ours from Cuba?"
Kennedy: "yeah. Yeah that sounds good to me"

[dominusempyreus]

"Is everybody okay?
...
Everything's going to be okay."

Heartbreaking.

[eldorados_lost_searcher]

"Is everybody okay...?
"Everything is going to be okay..."

It's a bad day for rain.

[EmperorTigerstar]

These missiles didn't launch a war but rather a de-escalation. Historical poetry. Or a bad pun. Either way.

[kyzylalchemy]

"This decision is tough becuase well, its so reasonable" is really the outline of the American government

[charlesjmouse]

2019 and the story of the Cuban missile crisis is still terrifying.

My sincere thanks to Vasili Arkhipov and all the others who literally saved the world.

PS
Not the only Russian soldier to see sense over orders during the cold war and in doing so saved the world.