The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Jimmy Akins Mysterious World
The first of missiles capable of carrying nuclear war heads started arriving in cuba. Soviet officials repeatedly lied about this, saying that they were only giving cuba of defensive weapons. The denial and deception policy thus, continued through october. And so the matter was now in the public eye, and it became an issue in the 19 62 midterm election.
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Sixty years ago, the world was locked in a 13-day crisis between the USA and Soviet Union. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis and the little-known details about how the world came within a whisker of a global nuclear war.
