The Cuban Missile Crisis. The great height of the Cold War.

Imagine the possibility of being hit with a nuclear missile any second. Now imagine full scale nuclear war, capable of causing the third greatest extinction in human history. Now you may think that we were far from it, and the possibility is so negligible that we have never come close to it. Wrong. From October 14 - 28, 1962, the Soviet Union shipped missiles to Cuba that threatened the USA. Of course, being Americans, they had to respond. But were they successful? What happened? Explore the Cuban Missile Crisis from the eyes of the average radio-listening American.

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