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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but were afraid to ask

Mark White responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the Cold War nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR

President Kennedy gives a televised speech, 22 October 1962. (Photo by Getty Images)

In the latest of our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, historian Mark White responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the Cold War nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR.

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