The Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis

'The Cold War' series tells the compelling story of the dangerous rivalry between two opposing superpowers - the USA and the USSR - and their respective allies. The period of the Cold War - the mid-1940s to the 1980s - was tainted by intrigue, suspicion and power games that threatened on occasion to engulf the whole human race in nuclear holocaust.

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR stood on the brink of nuclear war. Soviet missiles placed secretly in Cuba brought the USA within easy firing range. How did leaders John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev handle the crisis? Would the USA risk war by attacking Cuba to destroy the missiles? The dramatic days of world tension are vividly retold here.