In October 1962, the world held its breath...

While politicians desperately sought a solution to the Cuban Missile stand-off, nobody was aware what was happening beneath the waves but the men on the Russian B-59 submarine, submerged off the coast of Florida and trapped by US destroyers. Unable to contact Moscow and fearing war had begun, they debated launching nuclear torpedoes. As the two sides inched perilously close to nuclear war—far closer than we ever knew before–just one man stood between the Russian Captain's launch order and mutually assured destruction.“The Man Who Saved the World” combines tense drama with eyewitness accounts and expert testimony about some of the most critical events in the Cold War. That's tonight's HISTORY DETECTIVES...immediately following THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: THREE MEN GO TO WAR...8PM