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Previously on Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. Between 1947 and 1991, the world was locked in a

decades-long confrontation between East and West. It was known as the Cold War, a terrifying

stalemate that threatened to become World War III and devastate the globe with nuclear war.

One of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War occurred in 1962 when it was discovered that

the Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles in Cuba just 90 miles from the US coast.

The result was a 13-day international emergency known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The key players were American President John F. Kennedy, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev,

and Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, the fate of the world lay in the hands of these three men,

and we came within a whisker of a nuclear war that would have killed a third of humanity.

You did promise last week that there would be a last-minute twist in this episode,

so it's time to pay a Jimmy. What's the last-minute twist?

Well, everything we've covered so far is about the first Cuban Missile Crisis, the one that

America and the world were aware of, but we haven't said anything about the second secret Cuban

Missile Crisis. So that's what we'll be talking about later this year for the 60th anniversary,

the second secret Cuban Missile Crisis that the world didn't know anything about.

You're listening to Episode 228 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world. We'll be

looking at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the second secret Cuban Missile Crisis.

I'm Dom Betanelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hey Jimmy, howdy, Dom. In October 1962,

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