In August 1962, the Soviet Union began building medium-range missile launch pads in Cuba. After the failure of the American Bay of Pigs operation, the Soviets stationed missiles in Cuba under the pretext of protecting Cuba from the attack of the United States of America. From the point of view of the Soviets, this was just as justified as the placing of nuclear warheads by the United States in Great Britain, Italy, Greece, and most importantly, Turkey. Basically, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict that took place over the deployment of the Soviet nuclear missile system in Cuba. After General Curtis Leamy (Commander of the United States Air Force) defied the President's order to suspend all flights over Russia, the crisis reached its peak on October 27, when a U-2 was shot down over Cuba and another was almost detected over Siberia. Soviet submarines also launched a missile with a nuclear warhead in response to this act. But in this documentary, we will see how this launch was stopped by an officer named Vasily Arkhipov and prevented the occurrence of a devastating nuclear war, which some called World War III...
In August 1962, the Soviet Union began building medium-range missile launch pads in Cuba. After the failure of the American Bay of Pigs operation, the Soviets stationed missiles in Cuba under the pretext of protecting Cuba from the attack of the United States of America. From the point of view of the Soviets, this was just as justified as the placing of nuclear warheads by the United States in Great Britain, Italy, Greece, and most importantly, Turkey. Basically, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict that took place over the deployment of the Soviet nuclear missile system in Cuba. After General Curtis Leamy (Commander of the United States Air Force) defied the President's order to suspend all flights over Russia, the crisis reached its peak on October 27, when a U-2 was shot down over Cuba and another was almost detected over Siberia. Soviet submarines also launched a missile with a nuclear warhead in response to this act. But in this documentary, we will see how this launch was stopped by an officer named Vasily Arkhipov and prevented the occurrence of a devastating nuclear war, which some called World War III...
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