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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles
The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
It is 50 years since the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Witness hears from a Cuban who found himself caught up in events as the Soviet missiles were moved into place.
(Photo: US-taken aerial view of a Soviet Medium Range Ballistic Missile site on Cuba. Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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