1/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
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1/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy
https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:38.0 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:41.0 | The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. |
| 0:44.0 | It is a vast window on the Cold War |
| 0:49.0 | and on the misunderstandings, misstatements, mistakes that were made |
| 0:54.0 | by the leaders of several nations, most notably the Soviet Union |
| 0:58.0 | and the United States. |
| 1:00.0 | And it's a great pleasure to welcome Serhi Ploki, |
| 1:04.0 | a professor at Harvard University and the author of the new book, |
| 1:08.0 | Nuclear Folly, a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| 1:12.0 | We begin with the drama of dramas. |
| 1:15.0 | It is October 16, 1962, approximately 8 a.m. at the White House. |
| 1:20.0 | Mick George Bundy, former Harvard Dean, now the National Security Advisor, |
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