Castro sent a personal message to Khrushchev basically suggesting that Russia consider a first strike on the US because he felt that an invasion would occur within 24-72 hours, endangering his regime.Ģ. But on that “Black Saturday”, with tensions already high due to the missiles sitting 90 miles off our shores, there were several incidents that occurred that could have very well been a hair trigger to an apocalypse, the literal end of the human race.
The only reason it wasn’t set there is that other than those in the administration dealing with the issue, no one knew just exactly what was going on. However, after extensive research, Dobbs discovered many heretofore unknown or ignored facts that shows that the clock could have very well been set at not only one minute till, but at 11:59:59, one second till, on 27-October 1962, a day that became known as “Black Saturday”. The initial setting of the clock was at seven minutes till midnight. The closest to midnight the clock ever came to was two minutes till in 1953 after the US and Russia tested the first hydrogen bombs within nine months of each other. The clock first appeared on the cover of the June 1947 issue, appearing monthly until the publication became totally digital in 2009 it still appears as part of the logo on the Bulletin‘s webpage. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki were struck with atomic bombs, these scientists began publishing a newsletter which then became the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The phrase one minute to minute to midnight is in reference to the metaphorical Doomsday clock, a symbolic clock face that represented a countdown to the possible global disaster of nuclear war, later including any development that could lead to any irrevocable harm to humanity. The genesis of the clock came from a group of international researchers, the Chicago Atomic Scientists, who had participated in the Manhattan Project. How’s that for an end-of-the-world scenario? Thing is, it truly did almost happen. The title of the book is Michael Dobbs’ One Minute To Midnight, subtitled Kennedy, Khrushchev And Castro On The Brink Of Nuclear War. With that in mind, I find myself on another journey to the past that ties in with a history book that tells the story of an event that I actually lived through: The Cuban Missile Crisis. Another post I wrote was about something that’s always fascinated me, end-of-the-world books. One post I wrote touched upon the great book by Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers, and the road trip we took to Toccoa, Georgia, to visit where the camp was located that those boys of the famed 101st Airborne Division did their training at the base of Mount Currahee.
History, however, has been the driving force behind my choice of reading ever since I got my first library card at the age of six.
Then I jumped feet first, wearing my rocking shoes, into the early years of rock & roll telling about all the great concerts and rising stars I got to see way back in the day.īut over the years, my greatest love has been the books, books of all kinds. I even included my love of Marvel Comics. I’ve spoke of authors and their works, such as Thomas Wolfe, O’Henry and Harper Lee. Over the past few weeks I’ve written posts where I’ve made trips down memories lane, sharing my passions about some of the things that shaped me, made me who I am.
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