On this date in 1962 - fifty-eight years ago - shit almost got real. Thread:

THREAD: Fifty-eight years ago today—October 27, 1962—was arguably the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a day when tensions ran so high that World War III could have started by accident three separate times. pic.twitter.com/KDcnbCMCeR

— Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) October 27, 2020

Raise a glass to the man who saved the world from a potential nuclear exchange: Vasili Arkhipov