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
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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