Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis

School of War · Jul 11, 2023 · 48m

Max Hastings, journalist, military historian, and author most recently of Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, joins the show to talk about the world’s brush with World War III.

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Times

• 01:41 Introduction

• 01:59 From journalism to history

• 07:06 Recollections

• 09:40 Castro and the Bay of Pigs

• 19:46 Overflights

• 26:46 Quarantine and blockade

• 33:45 Russian floundering

• 35:52 Dealmaking

• 40:07 Uncomfortable proximity

• 42:36 Spheres of influence

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