As the boat began to submerge, the Russian submarine commander ordered two forward tubes to be flooded. He was going to fire a nuclear-tipped torpedo at the American naval task force. In moments hundreds would be dead, likely to be followed by hundreds of millions. How did it come to this? Two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, allies against Nazi Germany, became bitter rivals in a new kind of competition. And once again, as it had been throughout the last century, the crisis centred around Berlin and Europe. And it would bring the world to the brink of nuclear destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Instructor: Brent Bennett
Brent graduated with a B.A. (Honours) in European History at the University of Alberta in 1985. He went on to complete an M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies at the U of A. Brent retired from a career in the RCMP that included teaching law, investigative practices, police tactics, and firearms at the National Academy in Regina.
