It's pretty scary to think that at any given moment, humanity is only an asteroid impact or nuclear launch away from total annihilation.

But despite the universe's best attempts to snuff us out, humanity has managed to emerge from the rebel a surprising number of times.

So grab your end of the world rations as we explore eight apocalypse's humanity somehow survived.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening to be amazed.

In the aftermath of World War II, while most of the world was still burning,

the USA and Russia emerged as the two dominant global superpowers. As the two nations began helping to rebuild the world was still burning, the USA and Russia emerged as the two dominant global

superpowers.

As the two nations began helping to rebuild the world, they spread their own economic

and ideological systems wherever they went.

As they did, their conflicting worldviews, the USA's capitalism and the USSR's communism

became more and more heated.

As both sides possessed enough nuclear weapons

to effectively obliterate all life on Earth, they carried out most of their fighting in proxy

wars in places like Korea and Vietnam, but the possibility of nuclear annihilation loomed large

throughout the mid to late 20th century. While direct USA against USSR war didn't happen, the Cold War very nearly went hot at 3 a.m. on November 9th,

1970.

Zbignyv Bersinski, the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, was informed that the U.S.

Defense System had detected the launch of 2,200 ballistic missiles. They were headed straight for the U.S. defense system had detected the launch of 2,200 ballistic missiles.

They were headed straight for the U.S.

The 10 minutes that followed were spent desperately verifying the claim and preparing a counterattack.

U.S. bombers were put on standby and missile command centers prepared for launch,

but with mere minutes to spare, the detected launches were found to be the result of faulty computer equipment and the retaliatory strikes were called off.

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