Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
The final days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the Pentagon and the Kremlin
Witness History · BBC World Service
October 18, 202210m 51s
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Show Notes
Jo Fidgen hears what was happening in the Pentagon and the Kremlin in the final days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw the missiles as the crisis came to a head.
In 2012, his son Sergei remembered those fraught few days.
(Photo: Nikita and Sergei Khrushchev. Credit: Sergei Khrushchev)