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Kennedy and Khrushchev: Trailer
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Kennedy and Khrushchev: Trailer

Nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers stop a global catastrophe?

The Bomb · BBC World Service

November 6, 20254m 5s

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Show Notes

The world is on the brink of nuclear war. How can the Soviet Union and the USA prevent it? Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders President John F Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, tell the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Together Nina and Max explore what drove JFK and Khrushchev during the darkest days of October 1962. And when the crisis moves beyond their control as a U-2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba, how do they avoid global catastrophe?

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