DH Ep:58 The Bay Of Pigs

On October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two, the world came within a single vote of nuclear annihilation. Deep beneath the Caribbean Sea, Soviet submarine commander Valentin Savitsky prepared to launch a nuclear torpedo at American destroyers. Two officers had already said yes. Only Vasili Arkhipov's refusal to authorize the launch saved humanity from extinction. But that terrifying moment during the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't happen in a vacuum. It was the direct consequence of a botched invasion that had occurred eighteen months earlier on the beaches of Cuba's southern coast.

In this episode of Disturbing History, we take you inside...