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Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
The final days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the Pentagon and the Kremlin. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei remembers the offer to withdraw the missiles.
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)
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