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October 14, 2012

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Other, Secret One

Joe Matthews, BBC News

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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.

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TAGGED: John F. Kennedy, JFK, United States, Cuban Missile Crisis, Russia, Soviet Union, Cuba

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