Watch the full-length episode at http://video.pbs.org/video/2365530722/?Utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=tbom_covefullprogram (US Only) THE BOMB premieres Tuesday, July 28 at 8/7c on PBS.
In this clip from THE BOMB, see how a power play by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev backfired, sparking a dangerous confrontation with the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over fifty years later, we still don’t know everything about what happened; many Soviet records are still secret. But this much is clear, October 1962 was the closest the world has ever come to thermonuclear war.
