The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Sixty years ago, the world was locked in a 13-day crisis between the USA and Soviet Union. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis and the little-known details about how the world came within a whisker of a global nuclear war. https://www.sqpn.com/2022/07/the-cuba... Further Resources: • Sheldon Stern’s book The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: https://amzn.to/3Oy2Zg3 • Robert Kennedy’s book Thirteen Days: https://amzn.to/3uc8U2d • 2000 movie Thirteen Days (streaming): https://amzn.to/3ysmIYX • Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (streaming, 1964): https://amzn.to/3AhPQDF • Dr. Strangelove (Blu-Ray): https://amzn.to/3nsvhwQ • Episode 12 (Dead Hand, Perimeter, Soviet Doomsday Device): https://mysterious.fm/12 • Kennedy Library on the Cuban Missile Crisis (multi-media): https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/ • Online archive of secret White House Tapes (JFK, LBJ, RMN): https://millercenter.org/the-presiden... • DEFCON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON • Oct. 26 Secret Khrushchev Telegram: https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc... • Oct. 26 Castro Telegram to Khrushchev: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... Mysterious Headlines: Putting People Inside of Things to Protect Them Theme • Artificial Wombs Can Change Abortion Debate: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog... • Iron Man-like Jet Suits to the Rescue: https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/...