UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 8/8: 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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| 0:00.0 | Let's make a toast to doing more this spring. |
| 0:02.8 | Actually, let's make two. |
| 0:04.5 | Introducing two delicious new toasts from Duncan. |
| 0:07.4 | Hummus and roasted tomato and avocado and roasted tomato. |
| 0:10.6 | Spring it on with creamy hummus or savory avocado spread on sourdough bread topped with slow roasted, perfectly seasoned, vine-ripe tomatoes. |
| 0:18.2 | Actually, let's make a third toast to the two toasts I was just talking about. |
| 0:21.9 | Here's to you two, tasty tomatoes have toasts. America runs on Duncan. Participation may vary, |
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| 0:35.3 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with Professor Serhi Ploki. |
| 0:40.2 | His exciting, thrilling, challenging, amazing new book is nuclear folly, a history of the Cuban missile crisis. |
| 0:47.9 | The world started again on October 27th. |
| 0:51.0 | By October 28th, the perception in Washington is that Jack Kennedy has won. |
| 0:56.2 | The perception in Moscow is Nikita Khrushchev to rationalize. Well, I've made them promise |
| 1:02.6 | they won't invade the island, so we've saved Cuba. Well, I've got the missiles out of Turkey. |
| 1:07.7 | But Malinowski, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, their equivalent, |
| 1:12.3 | General and Chief, and other voices at the Presidium, that would be Mr. Kosegan and Mr. |
| 1:18.1 | Brezhnev, do not believe that it's a success, but that will wait two more years before |
| 1:23.1 | Khrushchev is removed in a coup in the Presidium. Right now, we have to deal with Khrushchev rationalizing what's happening. |
| 1:31.4 | He can. |
| 1:32.2 | He does. |
| 1:33.3 | He calls it a success to guarantee Cuba. |
| 1:36.3 | But at no point, as the professor indicated, has he consulted with Fidel Castro, |
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