Here is a link to the PBS "Secrets of the Dead" episode about "The Man Who Saved the World" which was talked about at our meeting. This happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when a Russian commander of a submarine fleet refused to launch his nuclear torpedo.
Yet if Googled "Man Who Saved the World" you may get this Wikipedia article about a documentary movie with the same name. This episode occurred in September 1983, when there was a report that missiles were heading to the Soviet Union.
These episodes during the Cold War were secret until the Soviet Union fell. What might have happened had the public known who close we came to Nuclear Armageddon?
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