Carl Robichaud

And it ends with the Kennedy brothers negotiating for the removal of the missiles in Cuba in return, secretly, for the removal of similar missiles that were in Turkey, right?

But in between,

you have three or four different events, each of which could have led to a nuclear exchange.

So you have the shooting down of a U-2 surveillance plane in Cuba.

You have another U-2 surveillance plane that wanders into Soviet airspace.

and triggers a response there.

You have local anti-aircraft batteries in Cuba that are firing on US planes.

And if they had shot one of those down, this is a red line that Kennedy had drawn.

And it was actually the local commanders who were doing this, unbeknownst to Khrushchev and to Castro.

You also have the US drawing up its final war plans for an invasion of Cuba, which was going to happen on Monday.

So you're here on Saturday.

They're preparing for an invasion on Monday.

the Soviet forces are preparing to use these tactical nuclear weapons if they have to, as you've described, there were secretly these tactical nuclear weapons that were on the ground in the hands of the local commanders.

And then amidst all of this, you have this incident with a nuclear armed submarine, a Soviet submarine that is accompanying the ships and

The US Navy is dropping depth charges to force this submarine to surface.

And the guys on the submarine, it's like 130 degrees down there.

They don't know if the war started or not.

These depth charges are going off.

It's like being in a tin can that's being pounded on, right?

And the captain of that ship actually authorized the use of their special weapon, which was a nuclear torpedo against the US forces.