The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In the concluding episode of our series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, we trace how a tentative compromise coincided with the most dangerous moments of the stand-off, in an exchange of letters that threatened disaster. Elinor Evans speaks to expert historians Alex von Tunzelmann, Mark White and William Taubman to find out how the crisis reached a resolution, and the diplomatic fall-out from the 13 days. Plus, we track revelations that have come to light in the 60 years since the world was brought to the edge of a nuclear war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.2	Someone that has sex.
0:25.2	Right.
0:26.4	And remember, it's just between us.
0:28.8	In the next com meeting on the 24th of October 1962,
0:43.2	US Secretary of State Dean Rusk whispered to National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy.
0:49.6	We are eyeball to eyeball, he said.
0:52.4	And I think the other fellow just blinked. This memorable quote
0:57.0	is often used when describing the dangerous second phase of the 13 days that marked the hottest
1:02.8	period of the Cuban missile crisis. And while Rusk's comment might belie the physical proximity of
1:09.1	US and USSR forces.
1:11.5	It certainly evokes the tense, charged and hostile nature of the standoff
1:16.3	as it entered its second week.
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