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January 27, 2018

Day 12 Cuban Missile Crisis – Black Saturday, nuclear war on autopilot…

Filed under: Americas, History, Military, Russia, USA — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

TimeGhost
Published on 7 Dec 2017

On October 27, 1962 a deal to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis is ever so close, but then almost everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. Political confusion between the leaders, lost and shot down airplanes, errant nuclear armed submarines and exhaustion takes its toll. For those immediately involved it will go down in memory as the Black Saturday.

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