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World Service,09 Jul 1985,28 mins

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Not so Long Ago

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How did Cuba come to be the focus of the Cold War? And how close did the Cuban Missile Crisis take the world to a nuclear war? Picture: Satellite image, Credit: Getty Images

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