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Secrets of the Dead
The Man Who Saved the World
Season 12
Episode 1
Fifty years ago, in October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. This is the little-known story of how close to nuclear destruction the world really was during those dark October days, and how the heroism of one man saved us all.
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