The John Batchelor Show
CUBA - Averting Nuclear Standoff - SERHII-PLOKHY-NUCLEAR FOLLOWERS HOUR2
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1962 OAS
Averting Nuclear Standoff
Serhii Plokhy, Part Two: Superpower tensions reached peak danger during Black Saturday when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba and submarine B-59 nearly launched a nuclear torpedo. Kennedy and Khrushchev ultimately resolved the crisis by trading Soviet missile removal for American security pledges and secret withdrawal of Jupiter missiles from Turkey bases. (2)
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