History Cafe
History Cafe
Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
#10 'these missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power' - Ep 1 Cuba Missile Crisis
31 minutes Posted Nov 29, 2021 at 4:14 pm.
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Re-releasing our series with widest international appeal in order for those podcast platforms that don't enable series playlists.
Synopsis: We have the memo to President Kennedy dated Day 2 of the crisis with his own security chiefs clarifying that 'these missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power.' So why does October 1962 develop into the closest we’ve ever come to nuclear war?