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The Cuban missile crisis was caused by nuclear weapons and resolved by them: what saved the world was not the weapons but two leaders who were frightened of them, and that fear has faded.

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  1. Serhii Plokhy

    Ukrainian-American historian

    The crisis occurred because of the nuclear weapons, because Khrushchev put them on Cuba, but the crisis was resolved and we didn’t end in the third World War because of the nuclear weapons, because people, leaders were afraid of them.

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    ↗Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415youtube.com

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