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Cuban Missile Crisis: the Governments

For two weeks in October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis took the world to the brink of nuclear war. Hear those at the centre of the crisis in Moscow and in Washington. .

On October 16th 1962 the American president, John F Kennedy, received news that the Soviets were secretly deploying nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. In the two weeks that followed, the Cuban Missile crisis took the world to the brink of nuclear war. Louise Hidalgo has been listening back through the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's archives to some of those at the centre of the crisis in Washington and Moscow.

Picture: President Kennedy goes on national television to tell the American public about the Soviet nuclear missile deployment and announces a strategic blockade of Cuba, 22nd October 1962 (Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

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Mon 16 Oct 2017 07:50GMT

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