The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1 of 2
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The End of World War III
A Soviet commander orders his nuclear submarine to fire on a US destroyer. Basili Akhipov, the sub's second in command, steps in and tries to reason with him. He says: 'I don't know if World War III has started, but I'll be damned if I'm going to die without taking down some of their boats' With the nuclear torpedo armed, the B-59 fires upon the USS Randolph, a giant aircraft carrier leading the US naval task force. America takes this act of aggression as their cue to unleash the full might of their atomic arsenal,. But Moscow returns fire with nuclear attacks on American troops stationed in the UK and Germany.
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