UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 6/8: 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
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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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| 0:33.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:41.8 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis is at hand. |
| 0:49.7 | It is October 22nd, 23rd in Moscow, the Presidium meeting in the Kremlin. |
| 0:56.6 | Nikita Khrushchev is the first secretary. |
| 0:59.3 | The others at the table are critical. |
| 1:02.4 | I turn to Serhi Ploki, his new book, Nuclear Folly, a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, |
| 1:08.6 | using transcripts from the tape recordings that President Kennedy made of his meetings in the White House, using notes that were made at the Presidium meeting in Moscow. |
| 1:18.6 | These two leaders of nuclear-tip-powered countries are unaware of what each other is saying and their information is out of date and it's often |
| 1:27.8 | misunderstood by both sides. |
| 1:30.0 | So we go now to the Presidium meeting late on the 22nd in Moscow. |
| 1:34.6 | It's eight hours ahead of Washington. |
| 1:36.4 | They take a break in the middle of the evening. |
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