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**TheMythOfSisyphus** · 01-01-2012, 11:00 PM

Just watched this, scary stuff, the only reason any of us are alive today is because one Russian commander. Literally. Anyone know anything about this or read up on this before? Interesting how a moment that literally could have changed the course of human history is completely unbeknownst to most people.

**1871** · (This post was last modified: 01-01-2012 11:37 PM by 1871.)

Ha ha myth - I fucken remember all that shit. lol. people believed that nuclear holocaust could happen at any moment.

People got scared as shit watching tv dramatisations like this; (made 3 years later')

(They actually banned that^lol)

Funny - I was reading about that today because of the Iran.Soviets and Cubans should never have stood down. The yanks were bluffing.lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

not the last

US/Iran is a similar thing - but in my view far more potentially dangerous - that is in its likelihood.

**TheMythOfSisyphus** · 01-01-2012, 11:18 PM

What do you mean Cubans should have never stood down? From what?

**1871** · 01-01-2012, 11:33 PM

From the stationing of the missiles. The Americans blockade Cuba. They put their nukes in Europe and the UK pointing at Russia - yet they bitch when its done to them.

**Asshole** · 01-01-2012, 11:37 PM

seriously.

how fucking old is 1871?

**1871** · (This post was last modified: 01-01-2012 11:47 PM by 1871.)

Fuck you son.

Read this - save it - its a breakdown of how the world was minutes away from being nuked -

official documents in second chronology

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAE...bchron.htm

**Younes** · 01-02-2012, 12:43 AM

(01-01-2012 11:00 PM)TheMythOfSisyphus Wrote: Just watched this, scary stuff, the only reason any of us are alive today is because one Russian commander. Literally. Anyone know anything about this or read up on this before? Interesting how a moment that literally could have changed the course of human history is completely unbeknownst to most people.

Yeah, my teacher told about it back in 8th grade... the Cuban Missile crisis was also getting pretty hectic, and that one Russian Officer actually have won medals and prizes for thinking twice.

**YaelTheGreat** · 01-02-2012, 12:56 AM

1871, how old are you?

**Notorious1994** · 01-02-2012, 02:40 AM

(01-01-2012 11:33 PM)1871 Wrote: From the stationing of the missiles. The Americans blockade Cuba. They put their nukes in Europe and the UK pointing at Russia - yet they bitch when its done to them.

I think the Cubans were used by Russia. Both nuclear powers were bluffing in terms of using the missiles, but Russia threatened to put some in Cuba as a bargaining tool to get US missiles out of Europe

Cuba didn't stand down so much as the US and Russia made a deal and Russia left Cuba the pawn that it was in this game.

**Younes** · (This post was last modified: 01-02-2012 04:33 AM by Younes.)

^
They did it because USA had nuclear weapons as close as Turkey in bases such as Incirlik and Izmir Air Base. I think they had around 300-400 nuclear weapons stationed there ready to be lifted up in a bomber and flown or launched into USSR land.
These bases still have nuclear weapons stationed in them and are still operated by both US and Turkish military.

They also had and still have in Germany, Holland, Britain and so on.

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-206266-r...urkey.html
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressReleases/050209.asp

It's actually quite shocking.

**Rev** · 01-02-2012, 04:38 AM

Yep i read this like a year ago at this mexican science magazine it had an interview with the commander and shit
yea it is pretty scary, i wonder if we are going to live our own version of this in 2012 with all the shit happening with Iran and Uncle sam