@ovalofficelore: For 13 days in 1962, the world came closer to nuclear war than ever before. The decisions made in the White House during those two weeks changed history. #OvalOfficeLore #JohnFKennedy #JFK #CubanMissileCrisis #USHistory

tornadosback :

Not to forget Vasily Arkhipov, the man who really saved us all by saying no

❦ :

Didn’t this all happen because of the bay of pigs invasion?

Jordy Balogh :

Closest we have been to WW3

b :

we now know that the soviet union was economically insolvent, and only had about 1/4th of the capability we thought they did. we also know after Afghanistan and now Ukraine, that they can't fight for shit either.

southernpatriot0001 :

When u do a deep dive into this it gets a lot more crazy

donsmit_3 :

Imagine all the history not in the textbooks

KĦĦN :

You forgot a key person

Easy n goin :

I think you’re forgetting something…

Keen Snake :

Why not start story from beginning. USA place nuclear missiles in Turkey super close to Moscow, unofficially and illegaly according to world wide laws. In answer to it, USSR place their missile in Cuba.

Chrisbell :

Not even half the story, Americans moved nukes outside soviet territory without the soviet government knowing, when they found out they had distributed nukes to Cuba incase of a surprise attack.

Hunter :

There is audio you can look up on YouTube with JFK on the phone during the 13 days having a conversation with Eisenhower it’s a really really interesting listen

killmiggs :

Me in middle school when a random historian in a CA museum told me we could’ve been wiped out

Real reel :

The secret agreement was to remove the nukes from Cuba in exchange for removing the nukes from Türkiye.

Mongertronger :

0:01 to midnight

Connor Southern :

Very nice

John_Fitzgerald_Kennedy🇺🇸 :

souly____ :

Nothing ever happens

boxboy :

Robert McNamara’s finest hour. Kept the Admirals and generals in line.

One6Dee :

that's only telling half the story tho we had moved nukes right outside Russia and Russia was re paying the favor. there is a great podcast in this about the cold war. we actually had Russia agree to hide the fact we moved our missiles out and they acted like we won't the cold war.

Thiccatron :

Yeah, it came really close. Luckily we made a deal to return Sokolov in exchange for ending the conflict

andrew :

bit irresponsible not to mention that this was only in response to the United States placing nuclear weapons in Turkey first with the intention of having them in range of Moscow.

.ᴠɪᴄᴛᴏʀʏᴛɢ. :

Crazy how this could have been one of the deadliest war in history.

Will :

Yeah we had nuclear weapons set up first in Russia

✝️ bigboi 🇬🇷 :

￴ ￴theo :

Also how they found out about American bombs in turkey