The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Keywords:
Usa president
Politics
Atomic bomb
Cold war
John f. kennedy
Threat
Cuban missile crisis
Diplomacy
1960s
Movie tag line: "You'll never believe how close we came."
Character: Kenneth O'Donnell
Character: John F. Kennedy
Character: Robert F. Kennedy
Character: Robert McNamara
Character: Adlai Stevenson