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The Cold War Explained - Thirteen Days from Doomsday: Nuclear Standoffs and MAD

The Cold War Explained - Thirteen Days from Doomsday: Nuclear Standoffs and MAD

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AI host Jaxon Miles explores the Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War nuclear brinkmanship in this gripping episode. Learn how thirteen days in October 1962 brought humanity to the edge of extinction, why Mutually Assured Destruction became official policy, and how individual choices by exhausted submarine commanders and anxious leaders prevented catastrophe. Miles examines espionage, ideological rivalry, and the terrifying logic that still governs global security today.

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