The 72 Hours One Man Stood Between the World and Nuclear War

The 72 Hours One Man Stood Between the World and Nuclear War On October 27th, 1962, three exhausted men on a Soviet submarine, cut off from the world for days, came within minutes of firing a nuclear torpedo at American ships — an act that could have triggered full-scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of them voted yes. One man — Vasili Arkhipov — said no. For nearly 40 years, almost nobody knew his name. This is the full story of the most dangerous 72 hours of the Cold War, told hour by hour: the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy's secret White House meetings, the U-2 spy plane shot down over Cuba, the submarine crisis that almost ended human civilization, and the secret diplomacy that pulled the world back from the edge. 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING This documentary is based on declassified U.S. and Russian government records, the National Security Archive's Cuban Missile Crisis collection, the JFK Presidential Library's ExComm recordings, and historian Michael Dobbs's research, including his book "One Minute to Midnight." National Security Archive: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu JFK Presidential Library: https://www.jfklibrary.org 🔔 If you're into deep-dive historical documentaries like this one, subscribe — new videos on the moments that almost changed history, every [your upload schedule here]. 📌 Got a historical event you want covered next? Drop it in the comments — I read every one. #CubanMissileCrisis #ColdWar #History #Documentary #NuclearWar #JFK #VasiliArkhipov #WW3 #HistoryDocumentary #ColdWarHistory