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CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Professor Serhi Ploki, his new book is Nuclear Folly,

a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It is 1962. The White House is informed there's a red line and it's been crossed.

The White House is seeking an answer. But why? Why did Khrushchev do this?

As Kennedy says, in his first blush of analysis, he doesn't gain anything from this.

He can wipe us out with his ICBMs. He doesn't need to put medium range or short range

missiles into Cuba. He certainly doesn't need them to put them in the hands of Castro's regime.

So why? Turns out that Khrushchev himself had this idea during a trip to Bulgaria

in the spring of 1962. What is Khrushchev's mind at this point, Professor?

Bulgaria was not an accident, because in Bulgaria he was talking to rallies that were organized for him by the

communist leaders of Bulgaria pointing across the Black Sea from Bulgarian port city of

Varna toward the Turkish territory where a few years earlier

the U.S.

installed the

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