What If B-59 Had Fired?

What if a Soviet submarine had fired a nuclear torpedo in October 1962? It was a warhead comparable to the Hiroshima bomb, and its targets were American ships. Nobody can say what came next. Robert McNamara later said nuclear war had come much closer than anyone knew, and Kennedy reportedly put the odds of war between one in three and even. That is speculation, but it shows how thin the line was. Full story:
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Music: ‘Home Was You’ by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
Narration is a synthetic (AI) voice. Scenes labeled “AI reconstruction” are AI-generated, not archive footage. The alternate-history section is speculation.
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