On October 27, 1962, a Soviet submarine officer named Vasily Arkhipov said no, and that one word may be the reason the world still exists.

This is the entire history of US-Russia relations, from the $7.2 million Alaska sale in 1867 to the war in Ukraine today. Along the way: the Utah pilot who bombed Berlin with chocolate, the Soviet officer who ignored a computer screaming that America had launched missiles, and the college kids who beat the best hockey team on earth. Then we put both countries side by side on money, ships, allies, land and nuclear weapons, and show which card makes the others nearly useless.

If a US-Russia war ever went hot, who would actually hold the stronger hand? The answer isn’t the one you’d expect.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The Night a Soviet Submarine Almost Started World War III
0:41 What You’re About to See
1:17 Why Russia Sold Alaska for Two Cents an Acre
2:14 America and Russia Were Once Friends
2:44 1917: The Revolution That Ended the Friendship
3:27 WWII and Lend-Lease: How America Fed the Red Army
4:30 The Elbe River Handshake and the Iron Curtain
5:39 The Berlin Airlift and the Candy Bomber
6:41 The Soviet Atomic Bomb and the Arms Race
7:17 The Secret Air War: Soviet Pilots in Korea
7:46 Sputnik: The Beep That Scared America
8:32 Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days on the Edge
8:53 Black Saturday: Vasily Arkhipov Saves the World
9:55 The Hotline: A Teletype, Not a Phone
10:19 Moon Landing, Détente and the Apollo-Soyuz Handshake
10:49 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
11:09 Miracle on Ice: USA vs USSR 1980
11:47 Reagan, the “Evil Empire” and the 1983 War Scare
12:03 Stanislav Petrov and the False Alarm
12:48 The Berlin Wall Falls: A Press Conference Mistake
13:15 Gorbachev, Reagan and the INF Treaty
13:51 The Soviet Union Collapses
14:11 Ukraine Gives Up 1,900 Nuclear Warheads
14:48 The 1990s: Victory for America, Humiliation for Russia
15:07 NATO Expansion: Who Promised What?
15:37 Putin, Georgia, Crimea and Election Interference
16:14 Russia Invades Ukraine
17:07 US vs Russia: Who Holds the Cards?
17:23 Economy and Military Spending Compared
17:50 Navy and Air Force: Supercarriers vs the Admiral Kuznetsov
18:34 Russia’s Hidden Advantages
19:21 Nuclear Arsenals Compared: Warheads, Submarines and Poseidon
20:33 The Verdict
21:09 The Swim Across the Bering Strait
21:41 Next: The Entire US-Iran Conflict in 16 Minutes

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