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World Service,01 Nov 2002,28 mins

The View From Moscow And Havana

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Former Moscow correspondent Allan Little retraces the steps leading up to 'Black Saturday', the day the world came close to nuclear war, using recently declassified KGB documents and interviews with Soviet and Cuban insiders.

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