Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Spy plane pictures reveal the Soviet missile build up to the Americans.

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Now they know what Khrushchev has really been up to. How will a furious President Kennedy respond?

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

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00:00 The first missile shipment to Cuba
02:01 How the US missed the shipment
04:25 Under cover of darkness in Cuba
07:33 Offensive or defensive missiles?
09:20 Miscommunication
11:43 Nuclear warheads arrive in Cuba
13:30 U-2 Mission 3101
16:28 Day one of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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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