Nuclear Crisis: The Escalation Of The Cold War, M. A. D World, Timeline

The Cold War: When nuclear weapons kept the entire world on the edge of Mutually Assured Destruction. As Russia, China and the USA flex their military muscles on the global stage today, World takes a close look at the last time we were threatened by the might of world superpowers: The Cold War. In this episode: Military bases spring up along both sides of the iron curtain. Many are supplied with bombers and highly trained pilots on constant alert to drop a nuclear bomb on the enemy. The Hungarian people rise up against their soviet occupiers and win a few days of freedom before Russian troops arrive to brutally suppress the uprising. Thousands of Hungarians try to flee across the border to Austria. The corrupt Batista regime is ousted by Fidel Castro and Cuba becomes a Marxist state on the doorstep of the USA. American attempts at destroying the Castro regime culminate in the humiliation of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The world listens in fear to the