
The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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X COM - The Black Saturday Message
Krushe reiterated what he said on moscow radio. He'd remove the soviet missiles from cuba in exchange for removing us. X com members speculated that this shift in tone was due to debates within the sovie hierarchy. Some were of the opinion that rustef hadn't written the message, but instead the foreign office at the krimlin. So hrusta might not even be in control in moscow any more.
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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.
