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The Cuban Missile Crisis: The 13 Days That Almost Ended the World (Sleep Story)
Tonight on Sleepless History, we drift back to October 1962, the thirteen days when the world came closer to nuclear war than at any point before or since. This is the full story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
We begin in the Oval Office, where grainy U-2 spy photos reveal Soviet missiles hidden in the Cuban countryside, ninety miles from Florida. From there we trace it all the way back: the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Khrushchev's secret Operation Anadyr, and the fragile, fearful logic that pushed two superpowers to the brink. You'll spend the night inside the windowless room where JFK's…
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