Jason Miklian: The Deadly Cyclone That Changed the Course of the Cold War

WIRED: When the Great Bhola Cyclone made landfall, it didn’t only crash against a coastline, killing half a million people, it also destroyed a fragile political system. This is the story of the cyclone: its fallout and how those events brought together two Cold War superpowers who threatened to destroy the world, writes Scott Carney and Jason Miklian.