UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 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

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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 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	This is Prime?
0:01.6	Recives bombvias in
0:02.9	a day?
0:04.3	Edison would be
0:05.0	a goodroososy.
0:06.2	Mm-hmm.
0:07.2	Orgoyosissimo.
0:08.5	Receive rapidly
0:09.2	the essentiales diaries.
0:11.1	Prime,
0:11.7	it'll change a
0:12.3	all. This is CBSI on the world.
0:22.2	I'm John Bachelor with Serhi Ploki.
0:24.2	Professor Serhi Ploki of Harvard University.
0:26.9	His new book is Nuclear Folly, a history of the Cuban missile crisis.
0:31.4	It is Saturday, October 27th.
0:34.3	Black Saturday, it's famously, infamously called.
0:43.1	There are two events that bring both sides to the level of, we're going to shoot, they're going to shoot, we're going to shoot. I tell the first
0:48.8	one, because it happens in the Sargasso Sea. It's almost like a melodrama that has no ending.
0:56.6	A U.S. flotilla has been following one, if not all, of the Russian submarine flotilla,
1:03.3	fox trots. These are diesel-powered submarines, not nuclear. This is early days for nuclear
1:08.6	submarines for the Soviet fleet.
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