What if the Cuban missile crisis went hot & Soviet sub B-59 had fired its torpedos?

On this edition of History Undone, Darryl Morris is joined by Rear Admiral Dr Chris Parry and Professor Sergey Radchenko to discuss the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and one of its most mythologised moments. On the 27th of October, also known as 'Black Saturday' Vasily Arkhipov did not consent to firing a torpedo with the capabilities of the Hiroshima bomb, from Soviet sub B-59. Yet how consequential really was this story and could the Cuban missile crisis gone hot? This is History Undone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.