Cuban missile crisis 50 years on: from the archive

Havana : Cuba | Oct 14, 2012 at 5:17 AM PDT

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Far from being just a political storm in the Caribbean, the Cuban missile crisis came dangerously close to triggering a nuclear war between two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union both nations having stockpiled enough missiles that a conflict between them would have destroyed much of the planet.... FULL ARTICLE AT Guardian Unlimited

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