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Plot Twists of History
Tiny accidents, wrong turns and lucky breaks that bent the course of history. Every episode hinges on one moment you won't believe was that close.
Episodes
- 1Stanislav Petrov and the 1983 Nuclear False AlarmOne Soviet officer, one red screen reading LAUNCH, and a fifty-fifty guess that saved everything.
- 3How India Won Independence in 1947Bombay, nineteen forty-six: a mutiny over dinner showed Britain it no longer owned India's guns.
- 4How a Wrong Turn in Sarajevo in 1914 Led to Both World WarsA driver takes a corner he was never told to skip, and a nineteen-year-old with a pistol is standing right there. The chain that runs from…