The history of the Cuban Missile Crisis - Matthew A. Jordan 

The movie Crimson Tide was probably loosely based on this story.

situations like that tend to limit peoples thinking. Like if you get a group of people with 1 not knowing what is going on to say that 2+2=fish then even though the 1 person knows its wrong he would agree anyway

This is one of the many examples showing that having an odd man out leads to better decision making in groups. If everybody shares the same opinion, thinks the same, feels the same, then a flaw in one persons decision making will go un-checked. When you meet someone who disagrees with you personally or professionally, and they make a compelling and lucid argument on their behalf, that's a good time to extend your hand and say I want you on my team. Both sides benefit.

Daniel Smith srsly? if everyone did what they thought was right, we would either kill or be killing each other over disputes or simply if someone thought that another person was bad because he has something that the first guy wants

Vasili Arkhipov is a true hero of the World.

@@m.m2594 ever heard of remembering him?

@@m.m2594 Yea a dead guy that gave us a future..............

no kidding!

Kasra Tayebi he has i believe

The thing in your lake, yes I stole ur netflix He contributed more to society, even as a dead man, than you being alive

Now Biden has made it happen again by allowing NATO to try and place nukes on Russia's doorstep and then pretending that it is unreasonable for Russia to disagree with this.... Thanks NATO.

It's really sad that getting away with this crisis was only delaying the inevitable. We'll be in the same situation again, just a matter of time. Since the dissolution of USSR, instead of getting dismantled, NATO was actually expanding to defend against a Russia with a population less than one half of America's. If that is not crazy, I wouldn't know what is.

@@lipincheng But wouldn't the imbalance prevent war? A conflict is most dangerous when both sides are equal in power

@@blubaylon NATO is a US led Mafia gang pushing its luck against Russia with population less than half of US's, but world's largest nukes stockpile. Truth of the matter is we were already given a 2nd chance in 1962 when US had 26,000 nukes.

My grandparents and mom didn’t know no one in cuba knew about the crisis , but my mom and grandparents did watch the plane go down she told me the sky was red and all they seen was a plane burning down in the sky , my family is Taino and Guanajatabeyes they seen and passed down many stories from the past how the USA tried to attack Cuba many times etc , I agree on having to come together and live in peace but I just don’t want Cuba to become what it was again or like Hawaii and Puerto Rico , we already have enough with the dictatorship and why I say we it’s because I’m still a Cuban citizen and if I speak bad about the government my family or I will pay the price same price people paid in 2020 revolution

Like my god he saved the worlded from nuckler war which would ended everyone on earth but he saved it by not firing the missles

He was the mam with the potential to truly revive a Nobel Peace Prize 🙏🏻

Imagine you save the world from a literal fallout game form happening and those around you say you should’ve died for that Damn

JazakAllah

he was promoted all the way to vice admiral after that incident, so i wouldn't say he lived a hellish life after that. the nukes armed in the submarine was also top secret, and only revealed on 2002 thats why the government didnt go yelling about how he saved the world, so not even some of the higher ups know they had nukes on that sub.

Sounded like bullshit at first telling, but a lot great tragedies *could* have been prevented by a single person, as much as those that successfully were prevented

WW1 could have also been prevented by 1 man. WW1 not happening would also prevent WW2.

war will find its way

actually just the opposite there are plenty of times things worked out or fell into cause because of an individual

I agree and disagree. While they have been cases of one individual dramatically altering things to some extent, in this case there is plenty. I disagree with the notion that there is plenty of cases being THIS close. Sure... there were close calls before, but never like this. When you say plenty you are implying it has happened dozens of times before

But he died in 1998, so he can't tell them anymore.

Lel do yo research

William Stockhecker okay, "could honestly tell people" then... happy?

Still not in past tense. Try "Could not have told people".

Latrell Homie dog he wouldn't give a shit cuz he was Russian

all they gotta do is drop and it would go back to that person

How bad can the Cuban Missile Be anyways

@@anthonyglover3773 Idk, total anihilation of the surface of the Earth maybe ?

@@thanh6523 we'll that could be it or something else who knows

@@thanh6523 nah it wouldn't have been that dangerous

@@thanh6523 total annihilation of the northern hemisphere that's for sure

Look at the fact that some people actually pushed for a third atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan

aadu7ec Really?

congo kong I don't know how much I agree with that. I think tech is very useful and has done a lot of good for humanity, but its a double edged sword. Where the other edge could be complete annihilation.

+Hobbes indeed but that does not mean that it cannot be avoided :^)

+aadu7ec The people that pushed for the 2nd A-bomb to be dropped were the ones that effectively got Japan to finally stop fighting. Easy to judge in hindsight. Especially if you weren't even alive when it happened.

I am for this notion

I concur with this

You can count on my support.

Or maybe "Vasili Arkhipov the Savior" is more appropriate?

Just anything to acknowledge this hero really

thats called having competitive advantage and the way to win the war, missiles in Italy and turkey was directly pointed at Moscow so that if any cities of USA are attacked, major russian citiy will be met with a nuclear fireball,

Russians: Joining nato is a threat to us Also Russians: Let's start a full scale war, because they tried to join Nato

@@Tepi1337 not the subject here homie.

@@maxalmonte14 Nah just a good

Spot

I didn't understand the irony in comics and movies of not pushing the red button until I studied the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Too bad he isn't spoken about much in the history books.

Cesar Geney the man should get the nobel peace prize and a holiday

Heath Anderson He died 20 years ago...

@@blackstatic161 posthumously they should

Ik

Naw that was GOD SENT.WERE NOT GONNA.KILL THE EARTH NOT UNTIL HE GIVES HIS FINAL JUDGMENT TO ALL MAN KIND

@@donnyjones6717 god does not even exist

I dont think it's just good luck, it is also the hard work and intelligent, wisdom of people stopping the end of the world

Fucks sake why did this turn religious?

@@donnyjones6717 t) ll

thats why it ended with both removing the missiles

thats why it ended with both removing the missiles

Exactly. The missiles in Italy and a Turkey couldn't be fired in the decisive time frame that the missiles in Cuba could be. Oddly enough, no mention was made of how Castro was screaming at Kruschev to launch an attack. Only pro western dictators are allowed to be shown in a negative light.

Do you have a source for that?

It is not exacly that manichean (it never is with History)....: Initialy, the missiles were suppose to be hidden in France but our gouvernment said no. A big thing for us because USA basically freed us 20 years prior to that moment, we owed USA (probably why Einseihower asked us). Only then started the negociations with Turkey. And don't get it twisted, Turkey had an interest in it too. Turkey was not a victim and did not get "bullied" by USA into having their nuclear missles ;)

Zhenbo Han ikr

Nope

lol. I find it funny how you think that a video about possible nukes being launched so close to home calming.

Wouldn't be at all surprised if it was planned this way. I don't think either man was stupid enough to actually push the proverbial button...

101m4n Like he said in the video war was nearly started by the sub commanders, so I don't think it was planned, i think the soviets were just tying to level the playing field a bit by putting nukes in Cuba and vowing to defend them against invasion but either way they came out of it better off. It didn't last long though, nukes were returned to Turkey (tactical nukes) and are still there today, although they may have recently been moved due to the Turkish coup attempt.

Fidel Castro supposedly once said he wouldn't have hesitated to use nukes in the event of a US invasion during that time period. So, you can plan all you want (to not use nukes), but variables outside of your control can mess it all up. By the way, you can also read in the Armageddon Letter how Castro urged the Soviets to perform a full-on first strike attack to "eliminate this danger forever" in the event of an invasion of Cuba. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/jfk-attack/

yeah, look at the usa today, they have ibms all over europe, and they are still saying that the russians are aggressive, and a threat to their national security....

+Maksimilijus Where did they say that?

Unfortunately the Orthodox church was not a big thing on the USSR.

Eh there's sainthood in the orthodox church too.

He probably doesn't want to, since he most likely isn't Catholic.

😄

@@rajibpathan2739 That would be irrelevant, as he is not CHRISTIAN

And this part of history is repeating itself in Ukraine. They wanted to join NATO which pretty much guarantees they would get US nukes. The difference is where Kennedy didn't invade Cuba, Russia did invade Ukraine. And Krushchev at least had the intelligence to understand Kennedy would launch missiles. Sadly I don't think Biden does.

@@dilligafwyt6095 lol USA actually invaded Cuba but failed miserably (Bay of pigs invasion)

@@dilligafwyt6095 Ukraine wouldn't get nukes from USA, are you crazy ? it would go directly against the Budapest memorandum that Russia now has broken. No country bordering with Russia in the eastern europe has the nuclear weapons not even Poland, Ukraine especially wouldn't be allowed to have nukes. NATO doesn't even have the balls to protect the humanitarian corridors from getting bombarded by russian bombs and you think that they would give the Ukraine nukes ? Do you have any idea about how geopolitics work ?

@@deante6506 Смотрю комментарии западников,и все как один говорят о мнимом нарушении будапештского меморандума,просто пересказываете пропаганду прозападно настроенных сми.И какие бомбардировки гуманитарных коридоров со стороны России?Для полной картины не хватает приплетения постановки в Буче,где Россия настаивала на проведении расследования,когда как эти призывы,коллективным западом были проигнорированы,ибо при объективном расследовании вся ложь всплывёт наружу,и миф о непредвзятости запада и военных преступлениях России просто рухнет.

Although I do agree with you, he didn't mention the fact the those US missiles are still in Turkey ready if needed to strike Moscow, despite the deal saying they'd be removed.

They removed the Jupiter missiles from Turkey in secrecy within 6 months.

The US still has nuclear bombs in Turkey, but not nuclear missiles.

Shit. I didn't know that either.

I think those missiles there are part of the deffensive system or shield to attack the ussr's nuclear missiles when launched

Yoyle 0340 yeah

Vuba?

@@rogel4438 He ment Cuba

@@justanotherguy1122 hahaaha

Cuba you meant?!!

turkey still has us missiles. us found a loophole by giving it to nato. Now Nato "controls" the weapones.

There's more. JFK was under a lot of pressure to simply invade Cuba. Before this, he was under pressure to nuke the Soviet Union, while it was believed the US had the upper hand. Had he asked for it, he easily could have received the codes to launch ICBMs, nukes from bombers, and nukes from submarines. Invading Cuba was the option that was pushed for for the time in question (what I mentioned above came before the CMC). The Soviet Union likely would have responded by invading Turkey. With both Cuba and Turkey armed with nuclear weapons, that likely would have triggered nuclear war. In an interview in the 1990s with Castro, he said that had it come down to an invasion, Castro himself said that he wouldn't have waited, he would have launched the nukes at the US.

only God can destroy the world

unfortunately, i cannot agree. i wish

AJ Tomecek me two

@@101jir what you mean by cmc?

Stanislav

And cause Splatoon. 🤣

The nuclear war could’ve done that...

1962 or 1983 we could have had a nuclear war

@Dejwr do Stanislav Petrov dude he is to Overshadowed by Vasili Arkhipov plus Stanislav saved more lives than any other human being did globally than Vasili and He Lived Longer.

brutal

Def con 1

@Kian macatuno In the eyes of the average American, the soviets. To the rest of the world, The Americans.

Why is everyone in the TED comments a lowkey communist lol

@@ethan6198 For someone with your username, you seem hilariously brainwashed by revisionist history

Jupiter Missiles couldn't reach the ussr major population centers excluding volgograd and kiev and many of those missiles are for incase a soviet invasion. The soviets have missiles that could reach every city in America excluding seattle

@@inigobantok1579 Well that changes everything ... It also means I had to do more research before commenting. Thanks

Nobody panics when things go according to plan. When America puts missiles in Turkey, and Italy, nobody panics because it's all according to plan, but when the soviets put one missile in Cuba, well then everyone loses their minds! It kind of sounds like something that Joker said in The Dark Knight.

Nobody bats an eye? You really think the Soviets and Eastern Bloc were okay with nukes on their doorstep?

@@gives_bad_advice I'm speaking from the perspective of the US. My original comment is basically an expression of how nonchalant the US was about putting missiles all over Europe, yet so furious when the same was done to them.

first reply

Hahaha

omg im dying i just bursted out laughing and yelled out stop

That’s every EXO-Ls and Armys during voting season

i can bent my finger like that it dosent hurt

Woah!

Not cool....

really? Damn, it was that close?

its just a prank bro!

Must have been scary. At the height of the last "world ending event" , December 21st 2012 , I was an class when everyone's phone gave off an amber alert. No one truly believed that the apocalypse was coming, but everyone in my morning class paused and had a deathly look on their faces when that alarm went off. Turned out that there was just a lightning storm nearby.

puahaha, I totally understand lol

Andrei that's not necessary and had nothing to do with the context of this comment.

I'm sorry ?

Just saying he should probably brush up on his knowledge about irregular verb tenses.

Ah...I'm a she but thanks for calling me a he.

liked an animated newspaper that a political cartoonist would make.

Ouch

And that’s so unbelievable, why?

@@nich2988 maybe because history and historians have always portrayed Russia in a very typical manner, as a war hungry country that wants to rule over the world and the type to destroy all the nations that won't surrender..

@@rhythmbhati7512 I know:) I was trying to get an answer out of this person to explain the prejudice against Russians encouraged by the media and how wrong it is, thanks for explaining. Do u feel the same way ?

@@nich2988 yes I do, the media portrays an image of a community/country (or literally anyone or anything) and then forces us to see only the side that they wanna show, if possible they would even want to forbid us from looking at it in any other way, may it be good or bad...

Mr. Kennedy I don't feel so good

lol

thanos irl=ussr/cuba in cold war

Yeah that's about right

@@elpi2804 an act of war or not he and kruschev came in clutch

AllStar Actually (historically) Khrushchev thought Kennedy was young so was naive and weak. Kennedy wanted to prove his strength which ended up causing this.

@@viridia1526 Kennedy wanted to prove himself so he put missiles in Cuba? interesting.

@@zacharyfelder6604 putting missiles in a country that agreed is not an act of war, the US placed their missiles in Turkey and Italy way before Kruschev did, but setting up naval blockade is definitely considered act of aggression if you want to look back in history

billions not millions sir

If it was a Republican president's some war would broke out

@@ronalddino6370 Tf? The party that the president is affiliated with has little to nothing to do with the possibility of war breaking out between the US and another country. Congress is the one that declares war, the president cannot. Stop being so polarizing; we've had amazing Republican presidents and also terrible ones.

@@termsconditions5033 i think what he meant that since Kennedy was a democrat so the people most likely accusing him of bargaining with the enemy and wanting the opposite outcome were his political enemies ie republicans. So if it was then in charge, they would have chosen war. But who knows, maybe criticizing Kennedy was just for the sake of criticizing and if out in the same position, they would probably still have chosen diplomacy.

@@dani0479 Oh I see, that makes more sense. I was really confused to why the political party of the president would have affected this outcome, thanks for helping me to see a different side to what I originally thought it was

thanks for requesting this video.

I'm sitting for mine May next year so it was helpful for me 😂

grateful for this nice summary bc O's in 23 days 😐

happened to me.. still can not believe it

Isabela Mejia what happened to you?

Sean Connery: "Vashili…...one 'ping' only, please!"

*55 years

what a beautiful Duwang

so you rather live those terrible days again than ahving some dumbass comenting first?

well, if I know it's gonna turn out like this, why not? 😋

liquidpebbles No, but I think there are better things to say about these times than "first". Maybe discuss on how we never should go back to these times.

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Steve Lamberts Indeed

It's a bit more complicated than that. 1. The Soviet missiles in Cuba were much closer to the United States than the Italian and Turkish missiles were to the Soviet Union. 2. Castro wasn't seen as a responsible enough person, even encouraging the USSR to just nuke the United States first. 3. The American missiles in Europe (and Turkey) were obsolete, and there were plans to dismantle them regardless. 4. The UN themselves disapproved of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, as they had been shipped in secret while the US' missiles were well known. 5. The United States removed its missiles at the end of it all regardless. It's easy to paint both sides as villains in this crisis, so be careful when you judge either nation based off of it.

@@DylanDude "the soviet missiles were much closer to the US than the italian and turkish missiles" give me a break. Turkey was litteraly bordering the USSR while between the US and cuba there is an entire sea between them. And the rest of your points are invalid arguments like "plans to dismantle them regardless" is a joke. You cant trust a politican because he has "plans" to do something.

Cuba is ninety miles from Florida. That changes the calculus

Dilman sky 90 miles of ocean is not an entire sea between them.

@@DylanDude whatever u say but USA is the biggest enemy of mankind

same...

@@aerinh.3456 lol

Mine too lol

"Communism is a disease that must be stopped" they said

Loll

Happening with Finland and NATO

No one was ready back then, nobody is now. But Murphy's Law tells us to be prepared. The funny thing is that we believe we have democracy, but it's impossible to prevent a spontaneous missile attack, for the Army don't ask civilians about what they have to say regarding the situation.

Санёк Ефимов so true

We are both (west and east) ready, we are always ready. But the civilians are not...

You need the will of the whole nation to start a war. You need only some rockets to destroy a society though.

What happened? how could u forget?

hiding under a desk wont save you from a nuke.

It will save you. If you are quite far from the nuke, but still close enough to experience buildings getting destroyed, that desk can potentially save your life.

@Cole Janse_van_Rensburg my dude, no ones had a nuke dropped on them least of all you, relax bruv

Yeah everybody is brainwashed. If NATO took Ukraine and planted or placed their missiles and military bases near Russia of course Putin was be distressed, people ignored history and only focused on what I'd happening

People will always forget history.

@@hunterofdarkness8329 But hey! Amurica can't do no wrong!

@@user-wu7ew8yb3w Bombing Japan? Invading Vietnam? Destabilizing the Middle East? Creating ISIS? It’s okay, it’s America we, can’t be mad.

Second birth to everyone.The moment the US detects that missile they're going to launch thousands back.

im here im also here to look for comments that may have summaries about this because I AM NOT gonna watch this full video lmao

ur not the only one

Me. I still have to do it and it is not going to be graded or anything Idiots

😂😂

Its due in 3 hrs lol

*International Holiday

Correction: as soon as a dictatorship does it it's a humanitarian crisis, I don't remember anyone complaining about Indian naval bases.

@@wanderingthewastes6159 what's there to complaint about Indian naval bases?