The Cuban Missile Crisis, as Viewed From a Soviet Launch Facility
Chertok’s career encompassed both military and space-exploration projects, and in late October 1962 he was focused on preparations for launching a Mars probe. On the morning of Oct 27, he was awakened by “a strange uneasiness.” After a quick breakfast, he headed for the missile assembly building, known as the MIK...
Few had been aware of the actual threat of a potential nuclear missile war at that time... When the world really was on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe, only a very small number of people in the USSR and the United States realized it.
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