Showing posts with label Cuban missile crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuban missile crisis. Show all posts

19.10.12

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Other, Secret One

Joe Matthews
 

Contrary to popular belief, the Cuban missile crisis did not end with the agreement between the US and Soviet Union in October, 1962. Unknown to the US at the time, there were 100 other nuclear weapons also in the hands of Cuba, sparking a frantic - and ingenious - Russian mission to recover them.