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Episode 44: 1962 - the Cuban Missile Crisis
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In October of 1962, President John F. Kennedy was stunned to learn that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear-armed medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. Though Moscow was trying to balance out the equation between the two Super Powers, JFK was against any Soviet presence in the Western Hemisphere. Through a combination of involving the UN Security Council, to enforcing a Naval Blockade around Cuba to initiating an indirect negotiation with Premier Khrushchev, President Kennedy displayed leadership, restraint and pragmatism to pull the world out of a nuclear showdown.
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