In October 1962, the Cuban missile crisis threatened to become a global thermonuclear war. The United States and the Soviet Union entered into a conflict over the presence of nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba, and a single spark could have ended civilization as we know it. But what we do not have so present today is that at the height of that conflict, a lost plane near the North Pole almost led the world to that result.
On October 4, 1962, a US spy plane that was making a reconnaissance...
