Canadian-based history project shows how 'luck' saved the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the world to the brink of all-out nuclear conflict, the Cold War superpowers’ close brush with mutually assured destruction has been meticulously and artfully reinterpreted in a Canadian-based historical project that shows how humanity was “just plain lucky” — in the words of then-U.S. defense secretary Robert McNamara — to have averted the ultimate disaster in October 1962.

The world was awakened to the crisis on Oct. 22 that year, when then-U.S. president John F. Kennedy gave a nationally televised address revealing that Communist Cuba — target of the Americans’ failed Bay …