Cold War Armageddon

Averting Nuclear War By a 1 to 2 Vote Aboard a Soviet Submarine

As tensions mount during the Cuban Missile Crisis the senior officers on board a Soviet sub damaged by a US destroyer make a decision that determines the fate of mankind.

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