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Below the Surface: B-59, the Jupiter Deal, and the Crisis Nobody Saw
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On October 27, 1962, a crippled Soviet submarine and a secret back-room deal over Jupiter missiles in Turkey brought the Cuban Missile Crisis to its most dangerous and least understood hours. This episode puts you inside the B-59, ExComm's most pressurized sessions, and the private channel that ended the standoff — but only in the dark.
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October twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two. A Soviet submarine is sitting crippled in the Atlantic, and the officer holding the fate of the world doesn't know it yet.
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