Season 3 · Episode 5
Kennedy and Khrushchev: 5. The crisis: Day one
Spy plane pictures reveal the missile build up to the Americans. How will they respond?
The Bomb · BBC World Service
December 29, 202537m 17s
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Show Notes
Spy plane pictures reveal the Soviet missile build up to the Americans. 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.