
The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Cuba - The Seven Point Plan of Action
A strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to cuba is being initiated. All ship of any kind bound for cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons be turned back. Any nuclear missile launched from ber against any nation in the western hemisphere would require a full retarriatory response upon the soviet union. I call upon chairman crushaw to haul and eliminate this clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace.
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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.
