Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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President Kennedy sends shockwaves around the world with a televised speech to the nation.

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He imposes a blockade on all ships bound for Cuba - Premier Khrushchev brands it “an act of piracy”.

But he knows that hidden in a tiny Cuban port, there’s a Soviet ship laden with unimaginable destructive power.

Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders, tell the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:00 Eyeball to eyeball
05:00 JFK’s speech to the nation
11:42 The US blockade begins
15:13 The Aleksandrovsk arrives in Cuba

How the nuclear bomb shaped world history. Nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the USA prevent apocalypse? Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy, tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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