Nuclear Crisis: The Escalation Of The Cold War | 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