7/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy

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7/8: 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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0:00.0	Sometimes you just need to get away.
0:02.8	And for the Aglewall family, it was well over June.
0:05.5	They wanted to know exactly what they were getting,
0:08.0	like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free.
0:11.6	Yes!
0:12.6	And no need to look heavy bags, with free parking at over 500 hotels.
0:17.4	Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip.
0:19.8	Cremeier Inn, rest easy.
0:21.9	Only available to book at cremierin.com.
0:24.9	Season C's apply, of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full paying adult.
0:31.9	This is CBS I In The World.
0:36.7	I'm John Bachelors with Serhi Plokki, Professor Serhi Plokki of Harvard University.
0:41.6	His new book is Nuclear Folly, a history of Cuban Missile Crisis.
0:46.1	It is Saturday, October 27th.
0:49.2	Black Saturday is famously infamously called.
0:53.0	There are two events that bring both sides to the level of we're going to shoot.
1:00.2	They're going to shoot.
1:01.2	We're going to shoot.
1:02.6	I tell the first one because it happens in the Sargaso Sea.
1:06.8	It's almost like a melodrama that has no ending.
1:11.3	A U.S. fortilla has been following one, if not all of the Russian submarine fortilla.
1:18.2	Fox trots.
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