Ivana Hughes

A whole set of things.

And really what we understand from that is that could have led to a nuclear war, you know, from deliberate kind of, you know, U.S.,

Kennedy was under a tremendous amount of pressure to actually invade Cuba.

By that point, the Soviets actually had nuclear warheads and missiles in Cuba.

You know, had that invasion or they're gone, you know, we quite simply would have had a nuclear war.

But it wasn't just that.

There were incidents during that 13-day period, 13.

Three of them on the same day, October 27th, it was a Saturday.

It's often referred to as the Black Saturday.

There were three things that happened that day.

One was a U.S.

plane that...

was doing some kind of monitoring near the North Pole and had accidentally gone off, lost radar, lost kind of the ability to navigate where they were and gone deep into the Soviet Union and was actually too high up

for the Soviet air defense and they really tried to shoot it down but the guy escaped then there was an airplane that was shot down over Cuba

And the American captain was killed on that day and Kennedy did not decide to move towards an invasion and so on.

And then perhaps the most serious one was where the U.S.

was trying to enforce a blockade of kind of, you know, the Soviets weren't supposed to be coming to Cuba to, you know, bring any sort of military equipment.

And

To enforce this blockade, they were using something called depth charges, but they were using kind of simulating depth charges and depth charges like a weapon to attack a submarine.

And so they were using ones that would sort of simulate an attack, but not really attack anything.