How it Started: A Brief History of Everything

The Cuban Missile Crisis 🇨🇺


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In this episode, we will journey back to a charged era of superpower confrontations and proxy wars. 

The stage is 1962, the world is divided, the threat of nuclear annihilation looms large, and the key actors are President John F. Kennedy of the United States, Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, and Cuba's charismatic leader, Fidel Castro. 

We're going to explore the nerve-wracking thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. We'll walk you through its origins, tracing the geopolitical tensions, Cuba's political turmoil, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and the USSR's bold move to balance the nuclear scales. 

As we delve into the crisis progression, we'll unveil how the US responded, the calculated moves of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and the tensions that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. 

To wrap things up, we'll recount how humanity stepped back from the precipice, the secret deal that saw the crisis defused, and its immediate aftermath.

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