The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Second Cuban Missile Crisis
The second Cuban Missile Crisis is a fascinating and little known part of Cold War history. It only came to public attention decades after the first crisis was over. And we can thank Anastas Mikoyan for navigating it to a successful conclusion. Despite the loss of his wife, he suppressed his personal grief and remained on the job.
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Transcript
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 is well-known, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss it was followed in November by a second, secret Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets hid from the world.
