This month marks the 60th anniversary of the standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Nikita Khrushchev’s move to deploy nuclear missiles and thousands of troops in Cuba. HistoryAsItHappens podcast
Sixty Octobers ago the world narrowly avoided nuclear conflict. After 13 tense days, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended with a compromise deal rather than war. President Joseph R. Biden’s remark that the war in Ukraine represents humanity’s closest brush with nuclear Armageddon since the 1962 crisis may at first seem overwrought, but there’s nothing like an anniversary to focus our minds on such a dreadful possibility.
Hanging over all of this is Vladimir Putin’s threat to use tactical nuclear weapons inside Ukraine. In this episode, military historian Max Hastings, author of “The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962”, discusses the critical parallels between the two conflicts.This is a podcast for people who want to think historically about current events. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. The past shapes the present.
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