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Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 : The Missiles

22/10/2012 GMT

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles

BBC World Service - Witness History, Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles

The gradual build up of weaponry - Soviet built ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads

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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