
This Is Not Your Parents' Cold War
Radio Atlantic
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Nuclear War After the Cuban Missile Crisis
There was a moment aboard a Soviet submarine where the sub commander thought they were under attack. He wanted to use nuclear tipped torpedoes to take out the American fleet, which would have triggered a Holocaust. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, people are now even more aware of this existential threat of nuclear weapons.
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