Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Berlin Wall rises, splitting the city from east to west.

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Then a stand-off between American and Soviet tanks at the crossing point, Checkpoint Charlie, brings the two superpowers to the brink of military confrontation.

This is the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 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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