Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Jo Fidgen hears what was happening in the Pentagon and the Kremlin in the final days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw the missiles as the crisis came to a head. In 2012, his son Sergei remembered those fraught few days. (Photo: Nikita and Sergei Khrushchev. Credit: Sergei Khrushchev)

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0:00.0	I'm Gene Lee, and I'm Jeff White, and we're back with a brand new episode of our podcast,
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0:37.9	Hello and welcome to the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:43.1	It's 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
0:46.5	In this program, first broadcast in 2012,
0:49.6	Joe Fidgin hears what was happening in the Pentagon and the Kremlin
0:53.7	in the final days of the crisis.
0:56.7	It's Friday the 26th of October 1962.
1:00.3	For 10 days, Washington and Moscow have been ratcheting up the tension
1:04.1	over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
1:06.4	And people the world over believe nuclear war is about to break out.
1:11.2	It's even the stuff of radio ads, like this one from Survival Training Projects.
1:16.6	Listen.
1:19.6	Possibly you will be one of the few who will build a shelter.
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