THE COLD WAR: 50 YEARS OF PROXY WARS, NUCLEAR BRINKMANSHIP, AND NEAR MISSES

Episode 14 | Human History — Groups & MovementsIn this History episode we focus on the Cold War — a conflict that killed millions in proxy wars across four continents, came within minutes of nuclear annihilation on multiple occasions, and shaped the political geography and institutional arrangements of the world we live in today.This episode covers the Berlin Blockade, Korea, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Soviet submarine that nearly launched a nuclear torpedo when one man refused to agree, Vietnam, the CIA operations that produced al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the Soviet officer who chose not to report what he thought was an incoming nuclear attack in 1983, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and what it actually tells us about which system won and why.The Cold War is over. Its consequences are not.#HistoryMystery #ColdWar #CubanMissileCrisis #NuclearWar #HistoryPodcast