The nuclear gamble that nearly worked - The Bomb Podcast: Kennedy & Khrushchev, BBC World Service

A covert convoy of ships carries Soviet missiles across the Atlantic, while American U-2 planes spy over Cuba and the sea routes.

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And as the ships arrive, Khrushchev writes to Kennedy about the divided city of Berlin.

It’s a distraction tactic. But the American spy planes photograph an alarming development.

This is the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders, tell the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Watch episode one of The Bomb here 👉🏽 https://youtu.be/_yjjdPPKfHc

00:00 Falling from the sky
03:03 The ships are sailing to Cuba
05:20 The letters Kennedy and Khrushchev sent one another
08:24 Khrushchev calls for an end to U-2 missions
09:42 On the ground in Cuba
12:11 The Berlin distraction
15:17 A secret game for Khrushchev
16:43 JFK’s message of strength
21:17 Khrushchev reacts to JFK’s warning
22:29 Honeymoon

How the nuclear bomb shaped world history. Nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the USA prevent apocalypse? Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy, tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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