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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Photos
The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Dino Brugioni was a CIA expert whose job was to interpret the photographs of missiles in Cuba.
Photo: President Kennedy in the White House during the crisis. Associated Press
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