What the U.S. Didn't Know About This Soviet Sub Near Cuba
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- A Soviet B-59 submarine has been spotted off the southeast coast of the U.S. mainland in 1962. The White House draws up a plan, but they don't know that this sub is carrying a devastating nuclear weapon on board.
From the Series: Hell Below: Cuban Crisis bit.ly/2JZrVeu - Zábava
We should all take a moment to thank Vasily Arkhipov who refused to authorize the captain's use of nuclear torpedoes against the United States Navy that day in 1962. Without his consent the torpedo could not be launched, and therefore he prevented the annihilation of millions upon millions of people across the globe.
Yeah one person literally prevented nuclear annihilation
Things like these happened multiple times. At some point a solar eruption triggered a false alarm in a soviet satelite and to the soviet soldier watching the readings it looked like the US fired nukes. He decided not to send any back.
Luke Skywalker there were probably way more cases like this that happened without us knowing it till this day
@@lukeskywalker5392 Believe it or not, the Soviets weren't bloodthirsty savages itching for war.
@@christopherbrice5473 i know. The common folk was way different that the leadership.
With all the snarky comments its easy to see most do not understand how close to the abyss the world really was. I was seven years old at the time and my oldest brother was on a B52 flight crew. My mom and dad pulled all of us kids out of school and drove 8 hours to the old Kinchlow AFB so the family could be together one last time in case something happened. Other people were raiding grocery stores to stock up on food and I remember stores with no bread or milk in them. It was crazy and a lot of people believed it was the end of time.
@VetteKid--Unlike you and me, I would venture to say that most of the people making comments on this thread didn't live through the Cold War, so they don't have a firsthand frame of reference in experiencing what it was really like.
Us, humans, are stupid indeed. We are able to extinguish ourselves due to political discussion. And I'm not Communist by the way. I certainly doubt we'll live to the XXII century, as we now don't face only war but also pollution and resources scarcity as possible theats.
I remember the air raid sirens. The barrels of emergency food and water.
At the same time, German tank crews were waiting in their bases for their immediate deployment - already authorizied vacations were revoked, engines running. A friend of mine among them. He said quite a lot of them actually crapped their pants while waiting in those tanks. They very well knew about the exspected average time of survival in "iron coffins": about 4-5 minutes after leaving the garage.
It's a running joke in the US Navy nowadays that we're in the Second Cold War.
I was stationed on one of the Navy Destroyers that used Hand Grenades to force the Soviet subs, not to surface, but to keep them submerged. Unable to charge their batteries and unable to get air, the sub finally sent out a distress message, saying that they were running out of air and battery power, and unless they were let go, they were going to fire a torpedo at us. We were then told to break contact. This happened between Key West and Cuba.
I was there.
Thats an interesting and more believable version thanx. So after contact was broken they just
went back to Russia?
The Soviet Navy/Marine base in Havana Cuba.
Thank You for sharing and sadly today people are much less educated and have less morals, I really hope nothing like this happens today, given technology both sides poses today we would all possibly be looking at end of our existence
Your generation was probably the last really good one
Love these full episode war docs!
A college friend of mine, who grew up in New York City, and was there in 1962, described it as "Fear City."
I was in training in Orlando at the USAF tactical missile school at that time. It was pretty tense as we had similar kinds of devices on that base. Orlando AFS (no runways) had no exterior fences and you could simply walk onto the base from any neighborhood street. We had to form a human fence around the entire facility with young airmen carrying M-1 carbines. There was a constant stream of aircraft overhead, flying south.
@DesertDenizen--Thank you for your service. From your perspective, you probably know more than anybody here what could have happened. Those were fearful times!!
Thanks for telling your story, comrade.
With the way shockwaves travel through water, those torpedoes would have to have a REALLY long range or they would be a suicide weapon (maybe that's why each sub only got one...).
Many of the Soviet Submariners were fine men who had no wish to start a Nuclear war.
Fortunately, wisdom and restraint prevailed. Had they not, none of us would be here now.
Speak for yourself bud I have 100 hours on fallout 3 I would of built a sick bunker
hshahahahahah]
@Angus Courtenay Poulden check vasili arkhipov
When we bugged their undersea phone cables by submarine. The greatest intelligence gathered was that they were a lot like us.
I'm delighted to be able to click through hundreds of clips just to get the full story. Keep it up!
Great to see that pair of Grumman S-2s going after Russki submarines. Flashback to the 1960s.
And there's still a few flying as water bombers, updated to turboprops.
@@jefftheriault7260 In North Central California they, both recip and turbo, fly into and out of McClellan field during fire season.
Stuufs.. my dad flew those.
This is what happens when a country gets a taste of its own medicine. Didn't the US deploy Jupiter missiles in Turkey long before the Soviets ever planned the Cuban strategy?
@The_White_Lotus--Something had to be in place to *prevent* the Soviets from attacking western Europe, hence those aging and increasing obsolete Jupiter missiles in Italy and Turkey. The U.S. was among many other NATO nations at that time, that had mutual defense obligations with its fellow members. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations had a 3-to-1 quantitative advantage over NATO troops in Europe. The conventional military might of the Soviet Union and its allies could have squashed NATO conventional forces in Europe like a bug and, in 72 hours, seize West Berlin, West Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium Austria, etc.
soviets had nukes in eastern europe. They already knew Nukes were in Italy or Greece.
@@chetpomeroy1399 the missiles in cuba is also a self defence againts the US aggression. The Soviets under the request of Castro deployed the missiles after the US backed bay of pigs invasion
@@isprikitikburkabush6200 When some of those nuclear missiles sent to Cuba were up and ready, Castro wanted to launch them against the civilian population centers in the U.S. as a preemptive strike in response to what he saw as an imminent invasion by U.S. military forces. As the tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated, Castro wrote Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, urging him to use the missiles and to sacrifice Cuba if necessary. Castro's mental instability was yet another reason behind Khrushchev and his generals deciding to remove those missiles. Fifty-seven years later, the "aggressive" U.S. forces *still* haven't invaded that impoverished island nation.
Yeah. Thankfully it was Kennedys bargaining chip and was probably the onyl reason why Russia stopped the cuban missile crisis
Could you make the background noise/music a little louder please?
I could still hear most of what was being said.
Why tho
So many things about this whole incident could have gone wrong.
These days , war is fought with Private Armies .
I have close friend of mine that was a Nike Hercules missile crewman at this time as well. Everyone was on high alert.
Would like to have seen more on this
There are 2 types of problems in diplomacy,
One that is small, which gets solved by their own,
Second the big ones, which you can't do anything about it.
So consider the mankind lucky to get this big problem got solved.
Contrary to the title of this video It was common knowledge in those days that Soviet subs carried nuclear torpedoes. As a matter of fact, Hollywood even made a movie shortly after this named "The Bedford Incident" which was a thinly veiled hypothetical about what could have happened.
Great Flick! "If he fires 1 I'll fire 1" Oh,oops! Do over sir???
I loved the "Bedford Incident" movie.
Superb acting! Riveting plot.
Check it out if you like cold war drama at its finest.
Wow! Very amazing!
It was very, very fortunate that the three officers in charge of the submarine didn't agree on shooting the torpedo, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
WHERE IS THE NEXT PART OF THIS? YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO CUT US OFF HERE?
They are paid documentaries
If I remember right 261 USSR Tactical Nuclear weapons were in Cuba. Took 31 years for that to come out in the open.
The Luna tactical missiles were under the independent command of General Pliyev. Although unknown at the time, any US amphibious assault on Cuba would have resulted in catastrophe.
It was Bobby Kennedy and backchannel negotiations that resolved the conflict and ended the crises
Well, he as well as many others made wise decisions is why there was no conflict.
It wasn't just any single person.
Crazy times, indeed.
Where can I find the rest of the storey?
Years later the Russians admitted they had already placed short range tactical nuclear missiles in Cuba, in range of the USA. These Missiles were different from the long range Missiles that were the cause of the Missile Crisis. This was the subject of a documentary sometime ago.
Interesting, so why go to this trouble if they were getting away with it already?
I remember this. This incident completely messed up my 5th birthday. Television quit showing cartoons and started showing old men in suits, TALKING. Soviet bastards.
And the "old men" were in their 40s ; )
Yes they were, many with tatoos they got while drunk during WWII. Seems like yesterday to me!
jmfa, a well travelled Marine told me about the history and methods of the Pacific tats he had. Some were put in with fish bone and burnt ashes. That was only 15 or so years ago then, like 911 is today. Seemed longer, tho. Cheers!
jmfa57 Sorry to hear that haha...glad nothing came of it
jmfa57 lolllll how old are u 70?
it’s freakin 2am and I’m still watching this afhgHgAHHHHHH
Full episode link please
It was a close thing. The Federal Reserve removed an unknown number of Federal Reserve chests full of money in Miami and hussled them away to cities further away from Cuba. One of them went to a bank in Asheville NC. I know about this, because as an employee of Diebold, I was called upon to deactivate the alarm system for that chest. It had a separate alarm from the bank. If my memory serves correctly, it was in 1973 before the Feds decided to move it elsewhere. Actually got to touch the money before it was removed, ten million I believe. The Feds said it was ok to touch as long as they were watching and my fingers didn't get sticky.
Wow....way cool. That's what I call a Game Changer in the Cuban Missile Crisis
@YouMockMe--Had it gone the wrong way, nobody would be here today making comments on CZcams videos like this one.
Imagine if they accidentally fire one of those.. oh boy.
I thought the benefit by having nukes, was to let your opponent know about them, and thereby not have to use them?
That's why the cold war nuclear subs really was historys most important peacemaker.
What a tease!
Ah so the Kevin Costner movie got it 180° wrong. It was McNamara who ordered the firing on the submarine, not over eager Navy men. He really was the smartest fool that ever lived. We're lucky to be still here.
Philip O'Carroll actually in the movie, Costner speaks to the captain of the destroyer- who says he can bring the sub up but whether or not it’s damaged is dependent on what the submarine does. The scene you’re thinking of was not firing on a submarine, but a cargo ship.
" The Magic..... "
a secret sound surveillance system called
so sus
So far there were 4 641 submarines unveiled. Two of them were forced to surface while another two managed to escape. Consider about the scale of US fleet, this performance is quite successful.
Tianyuan Xia Detecting a submarine is extremely difficult even in the modern days, let alone the 60s. So yeah, a successful performance indeed.
Diesel engines had flaws on that class. All were lucky to get back home. All were being tracked using the radio traffic to locate the subs. Took over 30 years for that to come out.
Except for B-59, which almost fired it's nuclear torpedo, believing they were under attack and war broke out. Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved the world by overruling the two other senior officers, who voted to approve the launch.
Scheiss Egal there was also another incident where a Russian ignored a computer that signaled if enemies had fired icbm he waited and eventually it went away came back and went away again they discovered that solar waves or something reflected off the clouds into their radars making them think it was an icbm he denied firing back and preventing nuclear war through a computer error the cold war had so many events that almost could have ended the world
Nuclear ICBM's in an exchange are basically an all-or-nothing scenario. Either all of them are launched, or as in the case of today's scenario (to date), none are launched. The current thinking is that there will never be a partial launch of a nuclear ICBM arsenal.
What class of sub is that?
Possibly the B-59 type Soviet submarine (Russian: Б-59), which was a Project 641 or Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy
So what happened in the end?? Was there a nuclear war?...hate when it cuts out like that!
History repeats itself
....this proves that ignorance is a bliss.
Well now they do
Where’s the rest of the story?
We all died. I'm dead now
Fun fact a soviet nuclear submarine captain lost contact with the soviet naval command and his crew predicted that nuclear war had started. That they were to fire there nuclear missiles. However the captain said no and secretly saved the world from nuclear war.
@Yeah Right--From the perspective of the officers and crew of that Soviet submarine that lost contact, assuming war had started, why even bother launching that torpedo when they likely believed that the population centers of both nations, involving hundreds of millions of civilians, had already been incinerated and turned to rubble? Self-preservation, even among the officers and crew of that Soviet sub, is a very basic human instinct.
J96ç4. Yarns. P
@@chetpomeroy1399 I get your point but the sub must fulfill its duty in case of war. Consider a case when US somehow just killed off the USSR's central command and started wiping out his nation. Then as a sub commander its just simply a matter of paying back. As a sub without contact you are blind and deaf, you cant surface to check what is happening because if war started you will get killed fast being that close to US and being underwater you don't know what's really happening. So the commander of the sub could of pushed the button and he would not be on the wrong side.Even if the sides started exchanging nuclear hits, the sub must still shoot its torpedoes at its enemies asap, that is what it must do, by doing that it would at least prevent a few or dozen more of enemies torpedoes/nukes hitting his side.
@@jabs615 Now, 57 years later, that's pretty much water under the bridge. Twenty-nine years after the end of that crisis, the USSR government wiped *itself* out.
@@chetpomeroy1399 Yeah, i guess it was bound to happen just considering the sheer economic strength of the NATO states versus the Warsaw pact with a destroyed USSR economy after WW2. I would like to know what would the development of communist countries be had they not spent that much resources on military.
How could he not know there were nuclear torpedoes. *BOTH* sides had developed these weapons, and it would be difficult to understand why their warships had not equipped them. It would be like going into a gun fight and being surprised that your opponent was armed.
Why isn't Kennedy looking into the camera during his address?
The U.S. had nuclear capable missiles in Turkey at the time.
Yep that's stuff you won't here about, its even worse now with NATO literally forming a noose around Russia, most of the allied forces that make up NATO have nukes that are much closer to there border than Cuba was back then.
gee, what a brilliant comment. No shit Sherlock
@Sigma Geranimo That's the US for you.
Those Jupiter nuclear missiles were slated for removal prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, to be replaced by new, faster, more-accurate, lower-yield SLBM's on U.S. Naval submarines deployed to the Mediterranean.
Yes
Ahhh, couldn't the soviet ships just go around the "quarantine line"?
What mission is this? Is this a new dlc? Looks great to me! Anyone find a glitch yet?
Cringe af
MY LIFE IS A MEME MY LIFE IS PATHETIC your name doesn't lie
Cringy comment
Maybe in Cold Waters
It still sounded like that the US is slightly more aggressive
These guys seriously put nuclear warheads on everything. lol
Where can I see these in full as citizen of Finland
Use a VPN
@@Ryuko-T72 i meant Smithsonian documentaries
damn...
Soviets stationed nukes on CUBA, almost 3rd WW breaks out. USA stations Nukes all around Russia, nothing. Russia even gets called aggressive lol..
@BlackLab Outdoors--The Soviet Red Army and the forces of other Warsaw Pact nations were surrounding West Berlin, poised to seize it. They had a 3-to-1 advantage over NATO in conventional forces in Europe, which would have enabled them to *easily* take West Germany, Denmark, Holland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, etc., within 72 hours. There had to be some sort of a deterrent to prevent them from doing this, which was *why* NATO had nuclear missiles aimed at the Soviet Union from Turkey and Italy.
And what was the ratio of advantage for the US in Cuba? Looks like they needed a deterrent as well...
@Chris Smeets--Had the U.S. government stood down and just let the Soviets install those nuclear missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev could have been tempted to simply launch those missiles immediately prior to seizing West Berlin, roll his troops into western Europe and bulldoze it, faster than the U.S. could respond with nuclear missiles, which would have been destroyed before launch. Twenty-seven years after the end of the Cold War, and 56 years following the Cuban Missile Crisis, with the communists *still* in power in Cuba, U.S. forces *still* haven't invaded that island nation 90 miles from its shore.
Same goes pretty much the other way around. US could've launched missiles into USSR before invading East Germany and Berlin.
And that island nation, how much of a threat is that really by itself?
@Chris Smeets--Just six years earlier (November, 1956), that *very same* Nikita Khrushchev was telling Western diplomats at the Polish Embassy in Moscow that _"We will bury you."_ NATO nations took Mr. Khrushchev's statement *very seriously.* Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces *already had* a 3-to-1 advantage in conventional forces in Europe. The Soviets could have squashed NATO conventional forces like a bug. At that time, Fidel Castro wanted to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the U.S. mainland to prevent an invasion.
good idea McNamara.
I bet the Soviets would'nt construe that as an act of hostility and retaliate.
Actually he ordered that the only type of depth-charge to be used was training depth charges, which have been accepted by NATO as a signal to come to the surface. The USSR learned of this but the crew weren't appropriated of this information, partially because the various factions within the USSR and the fact that the underwater communication systems weren't dependable.
because america allowed it as per the agreements made early.
Almost ww3 happened,... thanks God.
and..............
How can you get the full episodes of these Smithsonian series?
Darryl Spates buy it
If the US builds nuclear facility in every country in europe pointing USSR is ok, but if USSR builds nuclear facility in Cuba is not ok. This is why aliens don't visits us
Probably a good thing they don’t. Humans are bad enough; imagine the world with aliens trying to take over.
Aliens don't visit us because a failed communist state didn't get as much leverage during a cold war that ended decades ago?
Jr Candilasa yeah, because the USSR were far more aggressive and stupid than the US
@@Nick-ve1kg You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, give me some examples, preferably without having to cite something you just read on the internet, come on I doubt you could.
@@Nick-ve1kgwtf is your definition of aggressive man
Wouldn’t a nuclear torpedo also destroy the ship launching it?
JFK in response to Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Curtis LeMay's recommendation to go to a secured site and launch a first strike nuke attack on the USSR,: "NO ONE IS GOING ANYWHERE."
Am I the only one with a love/hate relationship for this channel?
The nation is stunned? While we send ships near other nations shore with weapons threatening them
How to shoot nuclear torpedo and escape in a sub it know it’s water but serious are you really gonna survive that close to a sub
Nuclear torpedoes have a small blast radius, the American Mk 45 torpedo had a blast range of 4 miles, small for a nuke but large enough to sink a Soviet Alfa-class sub which is designed to dive deep and evade conventional torpedoes
Mark45 could reach 40 knots and had a maximum range of 15,000 yards (13,650m).
My mistake, that’s 8 miles.
US put nuclear missile in USSR/EASTERN BLOCK BORDER that can reach Moscow.
USSR: Sounds good.
USSR Deploy Nuclear Missile in Cuba.
US: Oppps foul. It's cheating. 😂
2 seconds in and paused. It had a nuke torpedo. I’m leaving
What happened next
Both guys needed to fire the torpedo agreed to fire it, after the us started to throw depth charges at the submarine.
And only because it was the leader of a group, it had a third guy on bord that had a say.
He single handedly saved the world that day.
Dont worry we have Vasili!
Call of duty black ops be like...
Yes, nuclear missiles *were* stationed in Italy and Turkey--aimed at the Soviet Union before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. But the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact conventional forces had a 3-to-1 quantitative advantage over NATO forces in western Europe. Soviet and East German forces were poised to seize West Berlin, and the Warsaw Pact forces were ready to seize West Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, etc. NATO *had* to have a plausible deterrent to prevent this from happening.
Just the English and French troops against the massive Soviet red army LOL, good luck those suckers had American support and nukes available.
@TR4R--Indeed, beginning in 1948 Soviet forces surrounded West Berlin ready to seize it during the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49. Just a few years earlier, Stalin's Red Army had seized the Baltic nations and half of Poland, as part of an agreement he made with Hitler. Who's to say the Soviets wouldn't have seized West Berlin and most of western Europe had NATO *not* had nuclear missiles to make them think twice about attacking such tempting targets?
@Marxist Hedonist Secular Demon--France didn't withdraw from NATO until 1966--four years later.
Why do u reply on every top comment then create another comment?
@shawn li Because he´s a moron, just parroting what he has been told as many times as possible until it becomes true. The real truth is that the US used the entire world as a buffer to shield themselves at the expense of millions of europeans. They used us as pawns, as cannon fodder. The missiles in Turkey were the reason the soviets deployed their counter missiles in Cuba, but the american controlled media apparatus has managed to skew the entire thing and paint the soviets as the "aggressors", even to this day, which is false. Long before the missile crisis, the US was actively attempting to take over Cuba. The Bay of Pigs incident clearly shows the US intentions, and a quick look at any map of US bases around the world shows us the US is agressively encircling the former USSR, which tells us that the soviets were facing an existential threat to their country, and they were right to develop and deploy as many nuclear deterrents as possible.
The US is responsible for more wars and deaths than any other country in history. If you look closely, the US has had a hand in almost every single human conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries! And somehow the russians are the bad guys?? Yeah right...
Cover up they new about the sub and they were ready to send it to the moon with there own subs
Just how powerful was the nukes that the Soviets' have?
i think the torpedo was the same power as hiroshima bomb
Or maybe the subs did not have Nuke Torpedoes.
It had them. Really large dirty ones. Would have killed the crew of the sub.
It would have created some tasty waves.
Nimrod Quimbus we'd be in world war 3 then if they launched it
World War III would have ended quickly, with hundreds of millions of casualties on both sides. No one would be here to discuss this issue on this thread. Fortunately, wisdom and self-restraint prevailed.
the soviets also has battlefield tactical nukes in Cuba as well called Luna (Frog).
Them lock key ... it didn't had a Russian mad man dey.
Red alert vibes
Did Macnamara's plan work? He wanted to drop hand grenades on the USSR subs, yes?
USN harassed them with signal grenades. Drove them nuts! They couldn't figure out how we found them.
Yes and one of the subs thought it was under attack and was seconds away from firing the nuclear torpedo, until one of the senior Soviet officers vetoed the attack, overruling the two other senior officers who authorized the launch. It was a stupid and wreckless fucking move by Macnamara.
Leaders in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. were having nightmares and visions of huge population centers turned to mountains of charred, smoldering, radioactive rubble mixed with roasting human flesh. Everyone at that time knew this was a *VERY REAL* possibility. Fortunately, the Soviets blinked and pulled their nuclear missiles out of Cuba.
Bruno Gianelli Don't believe me? Do your research on B-59 and Vasili Arkipov, because you clearly have not.
I've heard that activating such a nuclear torpedo on a Soviet B-59 required three (3) key-holding officers on the submarine--two officers put in their keys and turned them, but the third officer, Arkipov, declined. However there was yet *another* factor in that equation at that time, as was mentioned from Four-Star USAF General David Burchinal, Deputy Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at that time:
_"...the Russians were so thoroughly stood down, and we knew it. They didn't make any move. They did not increase their alert; they did not increase any flights, or their air defense posture. They didn't do a thing, they froze in place. We were never further from nuclear war than at the time of Cuba, never further."_
The rusulka! Theres a submarine refueling base
Well they know now! ..... what makes you think they didn’t know before?
Or are you a space alien with space alien powers that we Don’t know about !?!?
That should help understand the great powers crisis around Venezuela now.
lets convert subs to carry cargo and then we can transport car parts from china
Did Kennedy (or anyone) ever consider the possibility of a bluff?
Any time you say "There can be no other reason..." you close your mind to any other possibilities. So if you are wrong and there *ARE* other reasons, you will not even stop to consider them.
US and Russia must show respect to each other working together is a better choice ,Trump is a 100% right on this issue
So you think America should work with a country that has been proven to have commited espionage against the US and had there own operatives infiltrate our country to affect the outcome of the election? does it register even a little bit strange to you that the candidate the Russians wanted elected was and now he wants the US and Russia to be friends again...?? I bet if Russia was a country of people with a darker complexion then all these trumps supporters would care that they infiltrated our elections to get him elected.
And don’t forget it was Barry Obama and Hillary Killery and there team. using Ukraine to start war with Russia and thank God Russia kept there patience
And going holiday to Russia 🇷🇺 is safer then going to Somalia or some parts of Africa
@@enigmacrk200 Russia still has nuclear ICBMs aimed at U.S. civilian population centers. They could wipe us out. As a Cold War survivor, I believe it's best not to provoke the Russians.
If President Trump and Mr. Putin get a chance to really work together the islamic and globalist threats to world peace will cease to exist !
USSR ended the war as the weakest world power as it slid for 46 years into a final collapse in 1991 due to incompetence and corruption, even though it used massive Gulag slave labor and drained the resources of six other nations forced into near-slavery in what was known as the Eastern Bloc nations.
Praning!!!! 😄😄😄😄😄
So the US government doesn't know this, but somehow a youtuber knows everything
Right...
Poorly edited lack of closure video
Only us used nukes
Yea, how long did it take for you to figure that one out ?
Call of duty black ops
@Zork Firestorm--This was *NOT* a video game--this was life or death. Back in October, 1962, this was *reality.* Had any of those nuclear weapons been launched, *none of us* would be here making comments on CZcams videos.
Jfk is a very smart President. I m impressed by how he handled the situation.
wow, what a brilliant comment that was.
Thumbnail guy needs some tattoos and muscles to a real Russian
Well now we know
I’m surprised at how much sense has been displayed in this comment section.
Let’s not forget that the US had their missiles in Turkey and Western Europe pointed at the Warsaw Pact nations. How was the USSR supposed to make a deterrent without stationing their missiles on Cuban soil? The Western powers could have defused the situation by removing the said Nuclear Weapons, but no, it spiraled out of control almost causing the beginning the Third World War.
@Lachie Clements--This is true, but the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations had a 3-to-1 numerical advantage in troops and conventional weapons, and were poised to attack NATO forces in western Europe and squash them like a bug--just like what they did to Poland and the Baltic states 23 years earlier. That's why there were nuclear missiles aimed at the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations.
why america stop merchant shiping in international waters? this is an act of war ships can move freely in international waters
Well Americans put medium range ballistic missiles in turkey aimed at the soviets so they have to do it
@Saneem Firdous--Attack on NATO countries in western Europe by Soviet and other Warsaw Pact armies seemed imminent, and the Warsaw Pact had a 3-to-1 ratio in quantitative conventional-force superiority, and they could have crushed NATO conventional forces like a bug and seized West Berlin and the countries of western Europe in about 72 hours. Something had to be done to deter the Soviets from doing this. Hence, the aging and near obsolete Jupiter missiles in Italy and Turkey.
soviets already had nukes in eastern europe before that.
@Vasting--NATO medium-range ballistic nuclear missiles were aimed at those sites, and would have been launched in response to any Soviet nuclear missile launches. I shudder to think what would have happened had the Soviets and other Warsaw Pact nations attacked any NATO nation in western Europe. Appeasing a potential enemy will likely start a war, which was learned at the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
1:30 S-2
Good thing those sub boys didn't use those nuclear submarines, if I were in one of those subs I'd probably just nuked them, especially if saw depth charges falling
So all of this going on , what is going on in Guantanamo base?
You ok?
Way off topic.