The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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What Did Fidel Castro Think of This?
The soviets planned to build a missile base in cuba. The plan was kept secret by using the tactic of maskeroka, which means 'denial and deception' Cuban leaders were enthusiastic but castro may not have been wild about it. But russian officials had convinced castro to accept the missiles.
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Transcript
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.
