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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: MASSIVE ATTACK – Why the Cuban Missile Crisis matters today

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963 might be the closest the world has ever come to actual nuclear war – but do we really understand what went on between Kennedy, the USA and Kruschev’s USSR? Ukraine-born Harvard Professor of History Serhii Plokhy tells Jude Rogers about his new book Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis – and what this fatal moment in the confrontation between East and West can tell us about today’s unspoken second Cold War.  “Diplomatic telegrams were so slow that Kruschev thought the best way to communicate with Kennedy was openly, through Radio Moscow.” “The technology has changed since the Cuban Missile Crisis but human nature hasn’t.”  “Today we’re back in the uncharted waters of the nuclear arms race before the Cuban Crisis.” Presented by Jude Rogers. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Logo and branding by Mark Taylor. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

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Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I'm Jude Rogers. As we try to emerge blinking our rabbits from the COVID-19 pandemic,

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the idea of burrowing into a buck that explores global annihilation, carnage and apocalypse might seem unwise.

1:24.8

But Sir He Plocke's books are just the ones we should be reading right now.

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Fascinating pacely new tellings of key events from recent international history that teaches fresh lessons, they

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unearthed new detail to old-fashioned critiquing research and make old stories feel brutally

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relevant.

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So he's last book, Chernobyl History of a Tragedy, won the 2018 Bailey-Gifford Prize for non-fiction,

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and his new book, Nuclear Folly, A New History of the Cuban Cuban missile crisis comes out this month.

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It's jaw-dropping.

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Taking the reader almost day by day from the start of John F. Kennedy Junior's presidency in late 1960 through the failed bay of pigs invasion

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