
The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Kennedy's Secret Plan to Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis
J f k clearly had no faith in the strategy of accepting shif's friday offer and ignoring his public saturday message. Instead, he worked secretly with rusk to put together an emergency fallback plan. The president later confided to john kenneth galbreth you will never know how much bad advice now, thanks to the xcom recordings, we all know. And there was an awful lot of bad advice that almost certainly would have led to nuclear war.
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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.
