[50sDad]

It was later claimed from declassified KGB file that field commanders on the ground in Cuba has nuclear tipped weapons and the authorization to use them if the Americans even looked like they were staging a landing in Cuba. Whew!

[massgopguy]

Cuban submarines were armed with nuclear torpedoes. The B-19 submarine, as all Cuban subs did, had Russian officers. One day they were getting depth charged by an American Destroyer. Two out of three command offices voted to use the Nukes. One did not. That man alone stopped WW III, as it had to be unanimous to launch.
Another brush with WW III was when the Mad Bomber of Kosovo ordered the British to attack the Russians at Pristina Airport and then took out the Chinese embassy.