BBC2 年
Cuban Missile Crisis: The Welshman who prevented nuclear war
In October 1962, Soviet Russia tried to install weapons on an island in the Caribbean, an event that became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis ... Getty Images Sir David Ormsby- Gore served ...
BBC1 年
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...
PBS7 年
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...
PBS5 年
Master of the Surveillance Image
The downing of Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 ... that afternoon (see the Cuba image in Spy Photos). The scan team were people who were very familiar with ...
CBC.ca2 年
On the brink
Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...