This is John Batcher. The Russian flotilla calling it Havana reminded everyone of the first Cuban missile crisis.

This time the Soviets were not present. The Russians were, there were missiles on board the frigates and the submarine

but not nuclear-tip missiles.

Once upon a time, no one knew whether the Russian missiles had nuclear tips or not.

Turned out they did.

No one knew about the Russian missiles at all until it was exposed by a U2 overflight and

intelligence gathered in Washington in 1962.

What made the Cuban missile crisis especially dangerous, we know after the fact, is that

Castro wanted to use the bomb.

He was ready to use it if it was in his possession. And who stopped Castro?

Listen to Sergei Blocke, whose book is the Cuban missile crisis, about the

missile crisis, and he explains very carefully the only man who could stop Castro from his intention to use a nuclear

weapon against the United States was Nikita Khrushchev.

There's Seri Plokie about the crisis that we didn't know at the time but

know now how close it came. And the next crisis like this we will not know until long afterwards.

It's a lesson.

More of this later tonight.

Thank you.

It's, this is certainly concerned.

This is the reason why he asks not only for the tactical nuclear weapons, but before that, he opposes

to the idea of withdrawing the Soviet. before that became a sticking point really in relations between Moscow

in the Soviet bombers and that became a sticking point really in relations

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