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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024)
Good and enjoyable but might be biased
My overall rating is subjective and not that important. I'm writing this review because of one very subtle moment I noticed at Ep4 40:00.
The CIA officer Brian Latell says Fidel Castro wrote to Khrushchev: "You must strike preemtively with all of your nuclear forces against american targets. You must not wait for the Americans to fire."
Yet he conveniently omits the true context of the letter (that in fact did urge the soviets to strike) but only IF the americans invade Cuba first.
This might not seem like a big deal and the interviewers opinion is not necessarily the one of the series.
But such subtle details (and there might very well be quite a lot more) completely shape what kind of worldview the viewer takes away. Just wanted to tell everybody to be careful with the statements and the possible lens through which the story is told.