October 27: The Day the World Almost Ended
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October 27: The Day the World Almost Ended
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(00:01:11) ExComm and the Secret at the Heart of Government
(00:02:40) The Quarantine Line
(00:03:27) Two Letters from Khrushchev
(00:05:22) October 27 — The Day That Almost Ended Everything
(00:06:14) The Man Below the Surface
(00:08:22) What Washington Didn't Know
(00:09:40) The Resolution and What It Left Behind
October 27, 1962 is the day historians keep returning to. A U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over Cuba, killing Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. — the first direct American military casualty of the crisis. ExComm's pre-agreed rules said a retaliatory strike should follow automatically. Kennedy held back. At the same moment, deep in the Atlantic, a Soviet submarine without radio contact with Moscow was being depth-charged by U.S. Navy vessels. Its commander believed war had already begun. Only the refusal of one officer — Vasily Arkhipov — prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo.
This episode follows the full arc of October 27: Khrushchev's two contradictory letters, the impossible choice they forced on ExComm, and the back-channel meeting where Robert Kennedy delivered a secret offer to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. The Jupiter missiles in Turkey would be removed. Quietly. Later. And no one would be told the two things were connected.
The version of the Cuban Missile Crisis most people know — Kennedy stood firm, Khrushchev blinked — is incomplete. The resolution was a trade. A real one, carefully concealed, that held as a secret for decades. This episode reconstructs the day when that trade was struck, when a submarine commander almost fired, and when the distance between October 1962 and nuclear war was, at several moments, a single decision made by a single person.
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