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Back to EpisodesThe Cuban Missle Crisis - Thirty Seconds from Total Nuclear Annihilation (Part Two)
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October 1962. The world is holding its breath. American warships are enforcing a naval blockade around Cuba, Soviet missiles are being prepared for launch, and in Washington, President John F. Kennedy faces a decision that could end civilisation as we know it.
As the confrontation intensifies, an American U-2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba, Soviet submarines are pursued by the US Navy, and aboard one of them, a nuclear torpedo comes terrifyingly close to being fired.
Behind closed doors, Kennedy and Khrushchev are searching desperately for a way out, while their military commanders prepare for war. Miscalculations, misunderstandings and sheer human stubbornness threaten to turn a political confrontation into a nuclear catastrophe.
In Part Two of The Cuban Missile Crisis, Rearview Mirror Chronicles takes you inside the most dangerous hours of the Cold War, where extraordinary decisions by ordinary men helped determine whether millions would live or die.
And when the world finally steps back from the brink, the real story of how close we came to nuclear war is even more astonishing than the one the public was told.
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