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I'm John Batchel.

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

The crisis is at hand.

It is October 22nd, 23rd in Moscow.

The Presidium meeting in the Kremlin.

Nikita Khrushchev is the first secretary.

The others at the table are critical.

I turn to Serhi Ploki, his new book, Nuclear Folly,

a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, using transcripts from

the tape recordings that President Kennedy made of his meetings in the White House, using notes

that were made at the Presidium meeting in Moscow. These two leaders of nuclear-tip-powered countries

are unaware of what each other is saying and their information's

out of date and it's often misunderstood by both sides. So we go now to the Presidium meeting

late on the 22nd in Moscow. It's eight hours ahead of Washington. They take a break in the middle

of the evening. At this point, Professor, Khrushchev doesn't know what's going to happen, but there's a man at

the table who has an alternative all the way through these discussions about deploying missiles.

His name is McCoyen.

He has a great deal of authority on his own because he's one of the original revolutionaries.

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