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Documentary: The Day They Were Going to DETONATE 36 Missiles + 158 Nuclear Warheads

What if the Cuban Missile Crisis had ended in nuclear war? ☢️ In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union faced the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War. For 13 tense days, the world stood on the edge of a nuclear conflict. In this video, we explore how the crisis began, the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy’s response, and the tense negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev that ultimately prevented a catastrophe. How close did the world really come to nuclear war? And what happened behind the scenes during those critical days?

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