You all know, we've been trapped together
in this submarine for 13 days, and honestly speaking, they were 13 days of... It's not the time for Dostoevsky now! Just press the button! Give me a chance to think. I'm telling you there's no time! We're losing Hassaninov! Come on man, he's making my ears bleed. -Wait...
-Come on press the button. -You want me to press it?
-I'm telling you to! Please press it! I don't know, I feel like I need to flip
a pound coin to leave it up to luck. What pound coin, you stupid ignorant? Our currency is Ruble! Just get it over with already, Hassaninov is having a break down! He'll be traumatized! He won't be able to get married! -Can someone call my mother?
-Just press it already. Press it! "No one presses the button" "I repeat, no one presses the button." Wait a second now. Just a second. Chill man, just chill. Oh Ramez, I don't like these pranks! May this remain a habit from
me to you and from you to me from me to me or you to you! I don't like pranks man! What's wrong, man! Hello my dear viewers, welcome to another episode of ElDaheeh. A new episode here about a close-call
world disaster that was going to happen. I won't say if it happened or not, I'll leave it as a surprise because I'm not
used to giving it away at the beginning so that you stick around till the end of it. I'm not new to this. On 4th October 1957, during the Cold War between
the US and the Soviet Union, if you didn't know that, the world was taken back by
the Soviets' launch of Sputnik, the first satellite sent to space. While the world was celebrating
this scientific achievement, the US papers are issued
with shocking headlines, like 'Sorry Abo Hmeed,
but it's not that big of a deal, it's just a satellite, not an atomic bomb. And what does Liverpool have to do with it? Where was Salah playing?' Wait you hasty, wait. 'Don't you want some coffee?' Let me tell you
that the Americans were terrified, that the Soviet's ability
to launch a satellite from Earth to outer space meant that they can design
intercontinental nuclear missiles. The technology that enabled them to
do this would make them do that! It was easy for them then
to reach the US and strike it! This killed an extra point that the US had, with its geographical distance from Europe! With these missiles
and a press of a button from Moscow, it could launch an
atomic bomb to Washington, all the way from Europe
with an ocean in the middle! 'Abo Hmeed, we shouldn't take
any fear seriously...' My friend, that wasn't an imaginary fear, the scientist Sergei Korolev who was responsible for
the Soviet Space Program, was the one who designed the
first intercontinental missile, the ICBM. After Sputnik, another panic mania
appears in Europe, and in 1949, it formed
the NATO with the US. It was a common defense agreement, that if the Soviet stroke the US, Europe had to intervene in the war. The French leader Charles de Gaulle said 'What, Abo Hmeed?' Meaning, since you don't know French, "America cannot head defending Paris while Detroit can be destroyed
by an ICBM." 'What does this one mean, Abo Hmeed? Just coughing. That’s why the American president
Eisenhower decided in December 1957 to hold an urgent meeting
for the NATO in Paris. This meeting led to a decision
that changed the history of the Cold War. The Jupiter Missiles. The US decided to place
the Jupiter Missiles which are medium-range ballistic missile,
in Turkiye and Italy. Turkyie, my friend, has common
borders with the Soviet Union, so the missiles could
reach Moscow in 16 minutes. With these agreements, the US
restored its military advancement and threaten the Soviets on their borders. But this would all change. On 1st January 1959... -Congrats, my friend.
-'On what, Abo Hmeed?' The Cuban revolution succeeded
led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. 'Wait Abo Hmeed,
Guevara the shirts brand?' You just insulted a people and a movement, and insulted so many things now, shut it. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara succeeded
in taking down the dictator Fulgencio Batista and declaring it a socialist republic. -'What!'
-My friend, the problem wasn't with Cuba, it's a small country with a small
economy that the US had under its wing, especially the sugar exports, the problem was with Cuba's location as it was 90 miles away from Florida. Cuba was almost an American state. So when a communist country appears
here, it's danger to the US security. Instead of the US directly middling with
taking down Castro's system, the CIA decided to train 1400 Cuban fighters
opposing Fidel Castro, these people escaped Cuba
during the revolution... And Castro was the in-Fidel that stayed? Actually he did stay there. Those 1400 men escaped
during the revolution, and in 17th April 1961, these fighters were dropped off on
the Bay of Pigs to start the invasion. 'Of course they took down
Castro, Abo Hmeed, it's the CIA!' 'Perfect training and developed
weapons, they definitely took him down.' Actually the invasion ended in 72 hours, with the surrender of 1200 fighters and a crushing win for Fidel Castro. The US with all its glory with its nuclear weapons and
its scientific and economic development, couldn't match his undoubted popularity. He had the entire people on his side! What happened made this one of the most failed
intelligence missions in history. In an interview of Che Guevara with
White-house adviser Dick Goodwin he sarcastically thanked the US for it. 'Hey...thanks... for the Bay of Pigs mission, that turned Cuba into a US enemy and the whole world
was talking about it.' But what does all of this
have to do with missiles? That's what we'll know
after the break. I'll go for a dramatic exit, and return dramatically. What did the Soviet
leader Khrushchev do? He said, 'a communist country
close to the US... let's shake hands.' Their close-ship made it as far as
him saying he considers Castro as his son. That's because Castro gave
him the magical solution that restored the balance of the Cold War that was imbalanced by the NATO's
missiles in Turkiye and Italy. On 14th October 1962, and during regular checkups on Cuba, the American Spy Plane U-2 showed strange bodies on the ground. The expert Dino Brugioni
analyzed the photos and he found a surprise, the photos captured a military base with the Soviet S-44 missiles! Nuclear mid-ranged missiles
ready for install, that sat away from the US by 19 miles! While the Jupiter missiles in Turkiye
can reach Moscow in 15 minutes, listen to this, the S44 missiles
could fly from Cuba to Washington the US capital in 13 minutes only. -'What, Abo Hmeed?'
-13 minutes. 'Before you destroy me by 3 minutes,
I'd have erased you.' The US president John Kennedy
on the 4th September 1962 warned the Soviet of arming
Cuba with heavy weapons. But he didn't know that Khrushchev with
his alliance with Castro succeeded in not only
passing through a missile or two, or 3 or 10 or 20 or 30... but passed 42 nuclear missiles! How? on the back of commercial ships that he sent under the US sight. Khrushchev announced it as a reality, 'You do you,
the missiles are already there.' 'You'll strike me from Turkiye,
I'll strike you from Cuba.' In only 13 minutes. But the coincidence blew the plan's
cover before it was complete. In that moment, the most dangerous
crisis in the history of Cold War started, with the Doomsday Clock, the metaphorical clock
of nuclear extinction. That clock of nuclear extinction ticked
till 7 minutes before midnight... 'So 11:53? I'm usually asleep by then' 'The world would fall apart as I sleep?' In Kennedy's meeting on 18th October 1962, the army generals and his brother
Robert Kennedy advised him to invade Cuba with the marines. -'What?'
-Invade Cuba. The CIA informed him
that according to its intel, there were 5000 Soviet soldiers in Cuba, so they could operate the missiles base. Fortunately for the Americans, this was a small number that could allow
them to get in and get the job done before they install the missiles
and threaten Washington. Kennedy refused that. Because during the Cold War,
all the wars of the two parties -the US and the Soviets- was through agencies. 'What? what brought them
to a talent agency, Abo Hmeed?' No not this one, my friend, I meant Proxy Warfare. Anyway, this Proxy Warfare was through each party having
ally country and fighting using them. There was no direct
"This" versus "That" war, there's "We're in a war using
North Vietnam and South Vietnam." The US versus the Soviet confrontation army
to army wouldn't stop at just clashes, it would create a Third World War. 'If we fought army to army
and not through proxies, we would enter a world war,
the plant would be destroyed 3 times.' After the infamous Bay of Pigs incident, Kennedy no longer had any
trust for the CIA's intel. What's interesting, is that this hesitation
and lack of confidence saved the world. Imagine that you're alive
today because of someone's trust issues. According to the archive
that was unlocked in 1992, let me tell you
that this cute nice CIA that we see in movies, they said 5000 men,
do you know how many were really there? There were 43,000 Soviet troops, and while the mid-ranged ICBM base
wasn't all ready, there was in Cuba Short ranged Nuclear Ballistic Missiles
that were ready to deal with any invasion. The power of one missile of them
equated a Hiroshima bomb. If Kennedy had decided to invade
and trusted the CIA, there would have been a nuclear war! On 22nd October, Kennedy announced
their discovery of the missiles on TV, and decided to impose
a quarantine on Cuba, to prevent any more weapons
reaching Cuba, and demanding the Soviet to "Move the missiles back!" 'How is there a quarantine on
a country, Abo Hmeed, it's no virus!' This was a diplomatic-intended
term, my friend, instead of saying 'Naval Blockade',
he said 'Quarantine', instead of saying directly
that it's a naval siege and turn it into a
military crisis and all that, he just said 'Quarantine'. If you, as a US president, said you're
issuing a naval blockade, you declared war. But when you use wordplay, and say 'Quarantine',
then it's just a quarantine. 'We're not saying naval blockade,
or any military elements.' It was a smart move from the US though. He saved himself... Actually no he didn't,
nor did he save the US. During broadcasting the announcement
there were 4 Soviet submarines... 'Wait, where is the CIA?' 'Where's the CIA?
Why am I not told these things!' These 4 submarines were already set
in the Sargasso Sea under Cuba, these submarines were undetected
because in October 1962 the Caribbean area was
hit by Hurricane Ella, the hurricane caused the waves'
height to go up to 7 meters, it succeeded to cover up the submarines
from detection by sonar and planes, until these submarines
reached the Cuban coastlines. Some men were sitting and said
'Oh...is that a fish?' While the submarines settled underwater, the world above waters
was starting to get tensed. On 24th October, Khrushchev
refused the quarantine, and assured that the ships
would arrive to Cuba, and described the US actions
as "Piratical Acts". The world put his hands on his heart,
and knew it was over. According to Thomas Blanton,
director of National Security Archive, in a few hours, the US people
had stored canned and primary goods, 'We'll enter the bunkers and won't leave' This resulted in, In the backyard of every house, there was a hideout for the family
to hide in when the nuclear war started. At that time, there
was a campaign called Duck and Cover. A civil defense campaign to tell people
what to do in case of a nuclear attack. My friend, I call it the "Poultry"
campaign, isn't it a Duck? One would ask me,
'Abo Hmeed, isn't duck a poultry?' Yes my friend, it was a campaign
to pout-try not to die. The Vatican Pope John the 23rd
sent a plea to Kennedy and Khrushchev, and told them to calm things down
and not let this mania end the world. He offered to mediate between them. 'I beg you to work things out.' The Soviet Ambassador in the US
at the time, Anatoly Dobrynin described when the Soviet ships met
the American destroyers as a Western Film with two heroes holding
two guns confronting each other. While the world was holding its breath, the Soviet ships took steps back
preceding the quarantine line with 5 miles. One would tell me,
'Thank God, Abo Hmeed, it worked out!' No, my friend. 'Then how are we alive now, Abo Hmeed?' Just wait. According to the spy planes, the missile
bases in Cuba were still getting ready. -'What?'
-Yes! This put immense pressure on Kennedy from generals that thought
he should've declared war from the start. 'We shouldn't wait till Washington is hit!' Here, Kennedy decided
and for the first time in history, to raise the alert state to DEFCON 2. 'I don't get it, Abo Hmeed,
but it feels serious.' This was the last stage
before DEFCON 1, DEFCON 1 was the state of Nuclear war, the American B52 plans circled
the aerial space every 20 minutes, each plane carrying missiles enough
to destroy 4 Soviet cities, while more than 100 thousand
marines were situated at Florida, that turned into a military barrack
ready to invade Cuba. While the world above waters
was setting up an apocalypse, the real danger was underwater. Let's go back to the Soviet
submarines settling underwater, where each submarine
carried a nuclear torpedo. 'Makes sense, Abo Hmeed.
There are nuclear missiles, and nuclear on ships...
why not submarines too!' The twist isn't here... The US authorities expected
that after 22nd October there would be Soviet submarines, so they started looking for it. They sent to Khrushchev that in case
they found just one Soviet submarine they would be demanded
to rise to the surface, and go back to the Soviet
without any clash. The twist is that the Soviet submarines
underwater didn't know they were exposed, they didn't know any of that, the world was ending above them,
and they had no clue. Their communication with the Soviet
authorities was cut off days before. These submarines moved
from Russia on 1st October, it had been in complete
isolation for 25 whole days, especially after losing
communication with the authorities. The communication officer in the B-59
submarine, Vadim Orlov said that after this isolation, he managed
to pick up radio waves from the US Miami, and he heard the news... the preparation of invading Cuba
and an alert state of DEFCON 2. 'Oh Crap!' All the submarines' staff thought that
for sure the Third World War was on already and they knew nothing about it, especially that communication
with Russia was cut off. They picked up the American TV
panicking just to show ads, and having clickbaits
of how the nuclear war started. They had an existential question, 'how are we supposed
to participate in this war?' Do they decide themselves
to release the nuclear torpedo? The protocol at the time, was that
the nuclear launch key was of 3 parts, each part with one of the staff officials, and the three officials
had to agree on the decision before they activated the key
that launched the nuclear torpedo. While I keep accusing you
of being hasty in analyzing things as we talk calmly in an episode
you're watching in the AC, the staff of the B-59 submarine was
analyzing the news in harder conditions, disastrous conditions to
take a decision a like this. The Soviet submarines that were out on
this mission operated on diesel engines, they were designed for conditions
like the Arctic Ocean, where the diesel's temperature
provided warmth for the staff. While in the Caribbean sea,
the water was already warm, the sea was hot and the submarines
had been there for days, this made the temperature inside
the submarine reach 60 degrees Celsius. The engines were overheated
and the ACs broke down. While the submarine's staff suffered
from ulcers, rashes, dehydration, and breathing in the diesel
air polluted with CO2, they were fed up, 'and you tell me that
there's a nuclear war on top?' During all these conditions and temperature,
in order to preserve the water they had, each one of them was allowed to have
one cup of water per day, in that hell, to save water. They were disastrous conditions for a
military staff cut off from its command and trusted on a nuclear weapon! They now also believed there was a
nuclear war on top, and they had to engage. 'Sorry Abo Hmeed, but why
a diesel submarine in a mission like this?' 'Why not a nuclear submarine?' Actually that's a valid point, the reason was the K19, this was a Soviet nuclear submarine that had a malfunction in its
cooling system in 1961 its nuclear reactor leaked radiation for 22 of its staff being exposed
to immense amount of radiation in a heroic and suicidal act saving the
world from a nuclear crisis and killed them. So this wasn't going to
be attempted again. Since then, the Soviet government decided
to depend on the diesel until they figured out how
to operate on nuclear fuel. Besides not being fit for Caribbean sea,
the diesel submarines had an even greater flaw. They needed to rise to the surface after
some time to charge the diesel batteries. On 26th October 1962, the B-59 submarine had its staff battling thirst and CO2
poisoning while listening to war news, while the time that the batteries had left
before needing to rise up was a few hours. You imagine> One call from the Soviet Command
was enough to fill them in on the situation and then they would rise to the surface,
charge the batteries, and go back home, with assurance from the US command
that they wouldn't target the submarines, and once they rose up,
they'd be left to go. The problem of communication that
turned Cuban crisis into a horror film, was also existent between commanders! The only safe way of communication between
the US and Soviet presidents was letters, this caused that in a nuclear
war where the minute counted, the communication
between commanders was slow. For the letter to travel between US
to Russia or vice versa needed 12 hours. On 26th October, Khrushchev sent to
Kennedy a letter saying "We both hold on to two ends
of a rope's knot... if each one of us pulled, the knot
will tighten and the world ends... let's carefully untie the knot." That's commanders' talk,
not fishermen...by metaphor. While this letter renewed Kennedy's
hope in Khrushchev wanting peace, in the same day a scary letter
arrived to Khrushchev from Castro where he assured him that
the US forces were close to invade Cuba, and that Khrushchev should start
with a nuclear strike before it's too late. Afterwards Khrushchev sent
a letter to Kennedy conditioning the US to remove
their missiles from Turkiye to remove his missiles
from Cuba in return. Here we arrive to the last and most
important day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, on the 27th of October 1962. At 10:12 AM on the 27th of October, the Soviet forces in Cuba shot
down an American spy plane and killed its pilot, Rudolf Anderson, although Khrushchev assured they
wouldn't target the US planes. The crisis was at its climax, one of the US planes fell and one
of its pilots died with Soviet fires! Kennedy then couldn't resist the
generals who considered it an act of war. They demanded he declared
the invasion of Cuba. That day, Kennedy's consultant
Robert McNamara while pointing out
at the sunset during the meeting, said that this might be
the last sunset the world would see. 'Brace yourselves' John Kennedy, in a secret
and desperate move, away from his generals, asked his brother Robert to get in touch
with the Soviet ambassador, Dobrynin, with a final agreement where the US
declared it wasn't intending to invade Cuba and in return, Khrushchev would
declare dismantling the missiles. Kennedy secretly promised Khrushchev to
withdraw missiles from Turkiye after months to save the US face in front
of the world and the NATO. This agreement was a desperate solution, because Kennedy was asking Khrushchev
to trust him without guarantees, to only trust his word of
removing the missiles, and in secrecy, he couldn't expose him
to the world if he didn't do it. All of that while Kennedy was
desperately waiting for Khrushchev's reply and his generals kept pressuring him. 'One of your men was hit
and killed by Soviet soldiers...' Imagine how the world was like then. They were thinking that
it could be their last sunset. At that time, the US destroyers
located the Soviet submarine B-59, that not only had its battery almost dead, but also their staff was almost
unconscious from CO2 poisoning. Their fingers were trembling towards
the activation key of launching the torpedo. But the submarine was hit by
'training depth charges' and more than 4 US destroyers
directed the sonar at it simultaneously. Sonar is just sound waves, and when directed
from a source as large as a destroyer it turned into 'Passive Torture'. A torture that the communication
officer Vadim Orlov described as "Being inside an Oil drum... beaten by a sledgehammer for 5 hours" The researcher Alexander Mozgovoi says that the submarine director
Valentin Savitsky during a state of nausea,
poisoning, and semi unconsciousness, thought that what he heard were real bombs, not training bombs sent for
the submarine to rise to the surface. Although the Soviet protocol dictates
that 3 bombs is a sign of safety, the US destroyers sent over 5 bombs, some of them were real bombs
in a clear rule-breaking as vengeance for the US plane
that the Soviet took down. Captain Valentin Savitsky said, "We'll die, but we'll sink them all" 'If I go down,
I'm taking everybody with me' 'And I have what it takes to do it!' Indeed, he prepared the launch of the
nuclear torpedo with the second official, at that moment everyone was waiting for
the third official's confirmation to begin, Vasili Arkhipov, but among an exhausted staff
from heat, training bomb charges, and a belief that the world above
waters was nuclear-ending, Vasili refused to launch the torpedo. He assured the other officials that
these bombs were signals to rise up, not to drown the submarine. While the director accused Vasili of
bringing shame to the country for being a coward
and wanting to surrender, Vasili held his ground,
refused to launch the nuclear torpedo, and demanded everyone to trust him. Here, we must ask,
what made this man different? What made him hold on to wisdom
in such a desperate situation? and to calm a staff that's on a verge of a
break down and nuclear-bombing the world? Let me tell you, that
this Vasili we're talking about was one of the staff of the K-19, remember? Remember when you asked
the question aimlessly, about why this submarine operated
on diesel not nuclear fuel? and I told you the K-19 story that had a radiation leak
killing most of its staff members but Vasili was from the survivors. For the irony of it... See the world's and history's plot, in a moment where the world was ending, the world said 'wait, there's a glitch... there's a dramatic
plot I laid out for you.' 'I got you someone to be
in that specific submarine where the most important decision
in the world then was taken, he was in the K-19 and saw most
of his staff die of radiation poisoning, he saw what a small radiation
leak could do to someone, that's why he believed that any
solution would be better than any human would be subjected to
a nuclear radiation that he caused. If that torpedo was launched,
a third world war would have started, that would have killed people
and ended life on the planet. The second world war started
with Japan striking pearl harbor, imagine then striking the US fleet
with a nuclear torpedo! That it's power equated Hiroshima bomb! Indeed, my friend, one of the best thriller endings
on this planet, the submarine declared surrender
by rising to the surface. As its staff -saved by Vasili- rise
to the surface after weeks and they were expecting the US
destroyers to be extremely violent, especially that they had a nuclear weapon, a nuclear torpedo, they were surprised that the US destroyers
directed them to leave to the Soviet 'Go back and withdraw away
from the quarantine.' In that moment,
the submarine staff realized that the US destroyers didn't know
that the submarines carried nuclear weapon which was a truth that remained
hidden from the US for decades up until the archives were unlocked. While fate smiled to the Soviet,
and they didn't destroy the world, fate also smiled to the
US pilot Chuck Maultsby who drove a spy plane next to Alaska, and as a result
of being too close to the north pole his compass gave wrong directions
and directed him to Siberia, where 6 Soviet planes crossed his path and the US command sent
two F-102 planes to save him. Since the alert state was DEFCON 2, the planes were also
loaded with nuclear warheads, and if not for the US pilot's
skills to escape, the Soviet union would have
received US fighters with nuclear warheads inside its airspace! By the end of Black Saturday
and beginning of 28th October 1962, and while the US forces were
about to invade Cuba, the world listened to 'Moscow Radio' and the president Khrushchev
announcing dismantling missiles and their removal from Cuba, as a signal for his acceptance
to the secret agreement with Kennedy. Indeed, Kennedy also fulfilled
his part of the secret deal, on the 20th of November,
the quarantine around Cuba ended, and in April 1963, the US
withdrew the Jupiter missiles from Turkyie. The US in agreement with the
Soviet Union for the first time decided to install a crisis hotline! 'We won't waste time sending letters
on the verge of a nuclear war!' Imagine calling a hotline and it says, 'For Russian, click 1...' So you go like, 'Just blow up the world, it's a hotline, be quick!' The Cuba Missile Crisis had its curse
fall on all the heroes of the story, Kennedy was accused of
poor management by his generals although his wisdom and patience avoided the world of a certain
apocalypse, he was a hero! The US general Curtis LeMay described that agreement as the largest
humiliating defeat in the US history. Khrushchev was ousted in October 1964, after accusing him of recklessness and
taking a deal that humiliated the Soviet! Vasili Arkhipov, the hero of this epic, according to his wife, Olga, once he arrived at Russia, he was told 'Drowning with your submarine
was more noble than what you did.' He spent most of his life
refusing to talk about the Cuba Crisis, until he died of kidney cancer in 1998 as a result of the K-19 radiation. The analyst Strobe Talbott said that part of the countries'
ambition of owning nuclear weapons came from their trust that
the US and the Soviet Union managed to live in peace
during the Cold War, because of what's known as If two enemies had a destructive power,
neither would destroy the other, because if you destroyed me,
I'll destroy you. If they managed to live in peace
with these weapons, then any country can do this too. In a crisis like the Cuba Missile Crisis, there would have been a nuclear war and the world would
have exploded 3 or 4 times, the nuclear balance was fragile. The US and the Soviet
were going to destroy the world, the details contained
a million human error that was capable of leading
to extinction by an inch. According to Tom Collina from
Disarmament Advocacy Group, 'What Abo Hmeed? Luck?' Can you see my friend
the amount of plot twists? Of course there had to be luck. It's like a dir. Mohamed Sami series. The man who was in K-19
and got exposed to radiation so when there's a black
Saturday he was the man in charge and took a decision to stop the mania and stop the steps to a nuclear war. I always think about something, many of us know Hiroshima because
the disaster already happened, but most of us know
nothing about the Cuba Crisis, because it passed by. I always think about the alternatives, what would have happened if. If Kennedy asked for Cuba's invasion? or If the nuclear submarine activated
the key and launched the torpedo? or If the US spy plane
fell in Siberia? A small butterfly effect
of one of these events, a wrong press of a button from
a US fighter or a Soviet fighter, ElDaheeh wouldn't have been here, that would have been
the real loss, you know, not the world or the US or all that. 'Sorry Abo Hmeed, but the
crisis happened in the sixties... and was filled with faulty equipment,
diesel, and late replies, we're no developed with
AI and technology...' The security expert and professor in
Pennsylvania University, Michael Horowitz when he analyzed the Cuba Crisis said
that the AI in such crisis would have made it a nuclear war. Why? because there would have
been no emotions or feelings, the givens of the solution
for Cuba Crisis weren't logic-based, the logical decision, and I assure you, If I were there, the logic
dictated launching the torpedo, I'm already dying, and there's a war outside, there are people counting on me, and I don't know where
I stand in the war, and most of the people
in the submarine wanted to launch it, they see it's the right thing to do, that was the logic-based decision. This feels like the world is strange. Something like Kennedy's hesitation
and determination on delaying war would have been refused by the AI. Khrushchev's agreement on a secret deal based on the variable honored US president, the president my friend, not his honor, -don't set us up- -we don't want a diplomatic
crisis with the whitehouse- According to Michael, the AI would have shortened
the Crisis from 2 weeks to 2 hours, a time window that wouldn't have
allowed the emergence of Vasili Arkhipov who saved the world last minute based on a moral emotional decision falling on a trauma he witnessed
when he was exposed to radiation. My friend, please, can you think about it
every once in a while? Because this feels
very thought provoking! According to the submarines'
director Ryurik Ketov, Savitsky's decision
of launching the torpedo was the most logical. In the film "Dark Knight" the Joker gives two teams a bombing device and each team knew if they
didn't press the button first the other team would press
the button and destroy it. But his plan fails when both teams
decide not to start the fight. They confidently decide that this
is the right decision without guarantees. In the end, logic is what
made the world build an atomic bomb to race Hitler before he built it, and logic leaked the secret
of the bomb to reach Russia for them to make
Mutual Assured Destruction. But to reach a safe world, we can't do it without
a human faith and trust lacking logic that we end up fighting it. The trust between us and
the others no matter who they are, deserves that we live in peace
on our terms not the Joker's. Even if all the logical givens
assure us at one moment that destruction is the solution. Just like Vasili Arkhipov's
faith that the enemy wouldn't kill him or Kennedy's faith in delaying war or Khrushchev's final decision
in believing Kennedy's promise. These were all faiths, but saved the world, although they destroyed those who
had them and got them accused of shame. In the end, our humanity is determined
by our achievements and inventions, but in the hardest times,
it can be determined by a moral decision, that logic doesn't support. That the world fits everyone. Maybe our life threatened
by nuclear extinction every minute would actually end
in a disastrous scenario, or maybe in a moment of understanding
and trust, we can reach a safer world, or at least try to. Or as Kennedy said, That's why, my friend, in any time where
there's tension, violence, and worry, don't forget to watch the old
episodes and the new ones, look at the sources,
and subscribe if you're on YouTube. I have a small reflection I'd like to share, that the world always
considers 'what did you do?' and not that sometimes the most
important thing you did could be not doing something. That's what we get from this story, these were people who didn't
do things that could've destroyed the world but no one remembers them by this. I have to excuse myself out
to go do nothing as well, maybe it would be useful. Can you play the outro? Thank you.
