
The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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We're Going to Get Ours Out of Cuba, but We've Got a Tough One Here.
Under secretary of state george ball declared that approaching the turks on withdrawing the jupiters would be an extremely unsettling business. Secretary of state dean rusk explained this meant kennedy's aids had been deliberately dragging their feet on something he wanted explored. Defense secretary robert macnamar exploded with somebody who changes his deal before we even get a chance to reply, and announces publicly the deal before we receive it. So my point is, macna marastressed we ought to really keep the pressure on them in this type of situation. And after a bunch more squabbling, with k holding firm against everyone else, that's what they sort of did.
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Transcript

In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brough the world the brink of nuclear war, 3 times just on one day. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how we can to the edge of Armageddon and avoided it, as well as the aftermath and ramifications of the crisis.
