
The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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X COM Won't Meet if One of Our U Twos Got Shot Down
President Kennedy's advisers demanded rejection of the new offer. He predicted that the us. Would lose international support if such a reasonable offer were rejected. If one of our u twos was shot down, x com wouldn't even meet. We'd simply attack, knowing that this could set off world war three. The president had already decided that we would launch an air strike on cuba.
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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.
