The Cuban Missile Crisis

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🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In October 1962 the world came very close to annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the autumn of 1962, a U2 reconnaissance aircraft produced clear evidence that the Soviet Union and the Cuban authorities were building medium-range ballistic missile facilities on the island of Cuba and only around 100 miles from the coast of Florida. The resulting confrontation between the USA under JFK and the Soviet Union led by Nikita Khrushchev lasted just over a month and it's often considered to be the closest that the Cold War came to escalating to full-scale nuclear war. Serhii Plokhy, author of Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, is Dan's guest on the podcast.

This episode was first released on 16 April 2021.

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1:03.3	Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
1:05.9	In October 1962, the world came very close to annihilation, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1:13.6	It lasted just over a month, the confrontation between the USA and a JFK,
1:18.4	the youthful president and the Soviet Union under that Stalin-grad veteran Nikita Khrushchev.
1:24.1	It's often considered to be the closest that the Cold War came
1:28.1	to escalating to full scale nuclear war.
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