Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We were closer to total nuclear annihilation than you think.
In this episode of A Lens On: Snapshot, we look at the knife-edge rivalry between the US and the USSR.
During the Cold War, peace wasn't maintained by goodwill: it was maintained by MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), the terrifying guarantee that if one side fired, everyone died.
Ben Walsh leads us into the most dangerous moments in human history: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, where a naval standoff almost sparked WW3, and the chilling 1983 Soviet false alarm incident, where a computer glitch nearly started a nuclear war.
Watch the full playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQrYLOdjwRhRR5WaLJgK_qU2lyZtzUj9w
Grab your copy of ICBM: Escalation: nwzo.io/click/0zl2m
We were closer to total nuclear annihilation than you think.
In this episode of A Lens On: Snapshot, we look at the knife-edge rivalry between the US and the USSR.
During the Cold War, peace wasn't maintained by goodwill: it was maintained by MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), the terrifying guarantee that if one side fired, everyone died.
Ben Walsh leads us into the most dangerous moments in human history: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, where a naval standoff almost sparked WW3, and the chilling 1983 Soviet false alarm incident, where a computer glitch nearly started a nuclear war.
Watch the full playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQrYLOdjwRhRR5WaLJgK_qU2lyZtzUj9w
Grab your copy of ICBM: Escalation: nwzo.io/click/0zl2m
