With hindsight, many historians see this crisis as the time that the world flirted most closely with nuclear destruction. By the time of the crisis, 1962, we shall see how both the USA’s and USSR’s nuclear weapons had become terribly powerful, but this was in a world where the rules of the game for nuclear war were still being made..

Cold War History Series - Episode 4 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cold War History Series - Episode 4 - Cuban Missile Crisis

Cold War History Series - Episode 4 - Cuban Missile Crisis