JFK's first move in the missile crisis - The Bomb Podcast: Kennedy & Khrushchev, BBC World Service

Pressure is building on President Kennedy to order a military strike on the newly discovered nuclear missile site on Cuba.

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But JFK wonders whether it’s better to keep the discovery a secret from Premier Khrushchev – for now.

Meanwhile, the Washington press grows suspicious of all the late-night activity at the White House.

This is the personal and political story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, told by Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy.

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00:00 The first combat ready Soviet regiment in Cuba
01:41 The US mulls an invasion
05:27 The ‘bad choice’
11:16 The bunker that could blow up the entire world
12:58 Robert Kennedy’s role
19:52 Secret tunnels and secret meetings

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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