You'll never believe how close we came.
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.
Kenneth O'Donnell
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert McNamara
Adlai Stevenson
Dean Rusk
McGeorge Bundy
Gen. Curtis LeMay
Ted Sorensen
Dean Acheson
Gen. Maxwell Taylor
U-2 Pilot
1964
2006
2021
1983
1987