When elephants clash,
smaller animals do well
to get out of the way,
but who can hide
when planet earth
is left in rubble?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
of 1962 nearly brought the world
to the unthinkable,
a nuclear exchange
between the United States
and the Soviet Union
--in popular parlance--
Armageddon.
Although it was understood
during those 13 tense days
of October,
that it was a close call,
what we know today
is enough to send chills
through the spine of the most
calloused individual.
Now, decades later,
we know the truth
about just how close we came
to the end of the world
as we know it.
And on today's
Tomorrow's World program
I'll reveal to many of you
for the first time,
just how close we came,
and it was a whole lot closer
than we knew at the time.
In addition,
we'll see that there have been
far more Cold War
nuclear near-misses
than are generally known.
And I'll be offering
a free resource,
Armageddon and Beyond,
that shows a nuclear holocaust
is not fiction
but also that there is
good news for our future.
I'll be right back
with shocking details,
so don't go away.
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Welcome to Tomorrow's World
where we hold out a real hope
for a better world.
But we also don't shy away
from reality,
and the facts are
that there are far more dangers
than many realize.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
is ancient history
to most people alive today.
After all, October 1962
was nearly six decades ago,
and anyone under the age of 70
probably only has
vague memories of it,
if any at all.
That frightening time
is ancient history
to younger generations,
when two superpowers
with weapons
of massive destructive power
came to the brink of war.
Even for those of us
who lived through
those perilous days,
and are old enough to remember,
details have faded,
and even we did not know
the whole story.
We might also add
that the subject of history
has been de-emphasized
in public education in the West
and replaced
by "Social Studies."
That substitution for history
seemed innocuous enough
when I was in school
in the late 50's and early 60's,
but the replacement
of history by social studies
continues to evolve.
In fact,
it was a clever sleight of hand.
Words have meaning
and "social studies"
is not the same as history.
Today's secondary schools
and universities,
and even primary schools,
pump leftist propaganda
into young minds
in an attempt
to transform society
and re-write history.
So how can we
blame younger generations
for lacking understanding
of events for which
they were never taught
and have no context?
Even their parents may not know.
If they learn anything
about the Cuban Missile Crisis
it is likely that
the Soviet Union and Cuba
were victims
of Western imperialism.
This does not imply
that all are in the dark.
Not all schools are alike.
Some have strong courses
in both ancient
and modern history;
and many very bright
young people study on their own
and are well-informed,
but sadly, this is
far from the norm.
Following World War 2,
feature films in theaters--
at least in the United States--
were often preceded
by cartoons and newsreels.
I still remember
how Fidel Castro
and his Cuban revolutionaries
were praised in these newsreels,
but following
his successful overthrow
of the Batista regime,
to the dismay of America
and its western allies,
Castro declared his allegiance
to communism
and the Soviet Union.
A potential enemy
only 90 miles away
created a problem for
the United States and Canada,
and what affected America
would have consequences
for the rest of the world.
The reality of the problem
became apparent
when Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev
secretly moved more than
41,000 troops into Cuba
between July and October 1962.
But more troubling was
the discovery that Khrushchev
had also ordered medium
and intermediate range missiles,
capable of carrying
nuclear weapons
that could reach Atlanta,
Dallas, Detroit, New York,
and Toronto.
That was a bridge too far
for the North American alliance,
and was a direct challenge
to John F. Kennedy
--the young American president.
Kennedy consulted with
top military brass and advisors
and chose what history shows
was the wise response
--to quarantine Cuba.
That was a word used to avoid
the word blockade
--which would amount
to a declaration of war.
Most of this was known to anyone
keeping up with the news
at the time,
but there was far more
going on under the surface
that we would have to wait
decades to learn,
after formerly
"Top Secret" documents
came to light.
Only then would we know
how close a call it was.
Even today, most people
are completely unaware
of what has been revealed.
As the crisis unfolded,
the Soviet Union
sent four submarines
to the waters around Cuba.
One of them, submarine B-59,
was intercepted
by the American navy
on October 27.
It was surrounded
and small depth charges
like hand grenades--
not designed to destroy a sub,
but to give a warning--
were dropped
to force it to the surface.
Now, those on the receiving end
of these charges had a
very different view
from that which was intended.
But what the United States
did not know at the time
was that Sub B-59 was carrying
two nuclear-tipped torpedoes--
each of which carried
about two-thirds
the explosive power
of the Hiroshima A-bomb--
enough to take out
much of the nearby U.S. fleet.
Conditions aboard the
diesel-powered submarine
were already uncomfortable,
with temperatures hovering
around 100 degrees Fahrenheit
--that's about 38 Celsius.
And carbon dioxide build-up
contributed to foggy thinking.
Further, being below the surface
and out of communication
with Moscow for so long,
those aboard B-59 had no idea
what was going on above them.
Officers wondered,
"Had war begun between the
superpowers already?"
This was a real possibility.
What happened next
is bone-chilling in retrospect.
According to AtomicHeritage.org:
...Orlov remembered Captain
Valentin Savitsky shouting:
Had they launched that torpedo,
Our world would be
vastly different
than it is today.
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It was October 27, 1962--
during the two-week standoff
between the two superpowers--
when the Soviets moved medium
and intermediate range missiles
into Cuba.
A Soviet submarine
had been detected
trying to get through
the American quarantine of Cuba,
and the captain of Sub B-59
and a second
high-ranking official were
ready to launch
a nuclear tipped torpedo
into the U.S. naval fleet.
What prevented them?
Before the break
I said I would reveal
the rest of the story.
But first I want to explain
what the results would have been
if they had followed through
with that decision.
What is generally unknown
--and only revealed
with the release of top secret
documents decades later--
was the planned
American response
had that torpedo been launched.
The American public
and their counterparts
in their western allies
in Canada, Britain, Australia,
New Zealand, France,
and Germany,
were deliberately kept
in the dark during those years
about America's overwhelming
superiority in nuclear weapons
and the means to deliver them.
We learn from
atomicheritage.org, that:
President Kennedy's predecessor
--Dwight Eisenhower--understood
war only too well
and tried during his presidency
to hold the line
on the proliferation
of nuclear weapons.
Nevertheless, the U.S.
nuclear arsenal grew massively
during his eight years
as the leader of the free world.
He also believed that
there could never be
a limited nuclear exchange.
Once one bomb went off,
it would quickly escalate.
Therefore,
Eisenhower commissioned
his generals to put together a
"Single Integrated
Operational Plan" (SIOP).
This would ultimately reflect
the doctrinal thinking
of the Air Force's
Strategic Air Command (SAC),
as created under the leadership
of General Curtis LeMay
and his successor
General Thomas Power:
Few Americans,
much less others,
knew anything about
the kind of response
a nuclear attack
by the Soviet Union,
no matter how limited,
would bring from
the United States.
As explained
in Evan Thomas' book,
Ike's Bluff:
President Eisenhower's
Secret Battle to Save the World,
an overwhelming retaliation
would descend upon:
Overkill was considered
necessary since it was unlikely
that all bombers
would get through to deliver
their destructive cargos.
The incoming, newly-elected
President Kennedy
was briefed on SIOP
in December 1960,
but he may not have fully
comprehended it the first time.
As Thomas explains:
A top-secret report
was declassified in 2011
regarding SIOP
as it existed in 1962.
Estimates of those killed
by such a massive response
were 212,000,000 people
in the USSR and communist China,
with an additional 4.4 million
in Poland and other
Eastern European countries
who were under the rule
of the USSR.
Radioactivity would no doubt
take multiple millions
of lives in the aftermath
--perhaps the reason
one report estimated a figure
as high as 600,000,000.
And this does not include
millions of casualties
inflicted on the free world,
and although perhaps
a less overwhelming response,
anyone who thinks
the Soviet planners
were any more civilized
is naive.
So what was it that prevented
nuclear Armageddon
nearly six decades ago?
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Sub B-59 didn't launch
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As we saw
in the previous portions
of this program, those aboard
Soviet Submarine B-59
were in the dark as to the state
of the world above them.
This was October 27, 1962
--the Cuban Missile Crisis--
and the U.S. Navy was signaling
with small depth charges
for the Russians to surface.
But Soviet Captain Savitsky
and political officer
Maslennikov,
thinking they were under attack
and war may have already begun
between the superpowers,
agreed to launch
a nuclear-tipped torpedo.
What stopped them?
The Soviet Union was as worried
as the United States
about an accidental nuclear war.
Therefore, their protocol
required assenting voices
from the three top officers
aboard the sub.
As explained
in AtomicHeritage.org:
That is how close we came
to Armageddon
--a single dissenting voice.
But do you realize this is only
one Cold War near-miss
involving nuclear weapons.
We live in a far more
dangerous world
than most realize.
Other classified documents
released in recent years
fill in details of other
near-catastrophes.
"Broken Arrow"
is a military code used for an
accidental event
that involves nuclear weapons
or components thereof.
An April 6, 2019 report
revealed the United States
and Soviet Union
have had at least 32 admitted
broken arrow incidents.
In six of them,
weapons were lost
and never found
or deliberately
left undisturbed.
Most of these involved
U.S. weapons,
but since the Soviet Union
is much more secretive
about such things,
it is almost certain
that there were more:
Another broken arrow incident
took place at an airbase
in England
But that wasn't
the only miracle.
Here is another incident
where "luck" was on our side:
What if a broken arrow
detonates by accident
near enemy territory?
What if a nation or rouge state
uses one of these weapons
against a foe?
Will it start a chain reaction
that could imperil human life?
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So far on Tomorrow's World,
we've looked at a few
close calls for mankind.
Nuclear disasters
are not so remote
as we might have thought.
But now,
let's look ahead to the future.
According to the Bible
and according to Jesus Christ
there is a crisis coming
such as the world
has never known.
As it tells us
in Matthew 24:22...
Will "Armageddon" involve
nuclear weapons?
Probably,
but what other weapons
are out there
that we don't know about?
The Biblical book of Revelation
describes some kind of weapon
that will not kill,
but for a period
of five months will...
We cannot deny that there
are difficult days ahead,
but the fact is
that most of us have
far greater concerns
than fearing an immediate
nuclear Armageddon.
As with all my generation
and those on either side of it,
we lived in the shadow
of the mushroom cloud.
Some of us more than others.
My friends and I grew up
on Strategic Air Command bases
where we understood
that in case of war,
we were sitting at ground zero,
and we had
our personal nightmares,
but rarely shared them.
It might surprise you,
but Bible prophecy
was a comfort to me
and remains so
for many who understand it.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis
I understood there was
nothing to worry about,
and despite Soviet Sub B-59,
that assessment was correct.
Yes, it was a tense
and critical time
when one mistake could have
blown the world apart,
but according to the Bible,
it wasn't God's time or place.
Now how can I say that?
Some people bring up
Jesus' statement
in Matthew 24:36 that says...
That is certainly true.
We cannot even predict the year,
but this passage
in no way negates
literally dozens of scriptures
that show certain events
must first take place.
In fact, this very scripture
that they quote
is taken out of context
where it shows that we can know
the approximate time.
Notice what it says
a few verses earlier...
"...all these things..."
--as given before--
"...know that..."
Knowing what is ahead
--both the bad news
and the good news--
gives peace of mind.
Without regard
for some awful things
on the horizon,
those who understand
Biblical prophecy can have
peace and comfort.
There is a way of escape
from Armageddon.
Even more importantly,
there is the realization
that although we will all die,
eternal life is offered to us
as Jesus promised
where he said:
Then He asked the woman
that He was speaking to
a question that equally applies
to you and me...
It behooves each of us
to know why we were born.
Life is precious and precarious
--far more resilient
than we think at times,
but far more fragile
in the overall picture.
We're temporary,
and life is short.
There is a God
and He gives us the opportunity
to live forever.
He's evaluating
the decisions we make
--whether we love Him
with all our heart,
mind, and being
or whether we follow the crowd
and fear man more than God.
How amazing it is
that so few spend any time
searching to prove
that God is real,
that He is a rewarder of those
who diligently seek Him,
and what His purpose
is for mankind.
It seems that most
are more interested in
what is on television tonight,
or whether "my team"
will win this weekend.
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