Cuban Missile Crisis: October 1962

Thirteen days in October 1962 when the world came the closest it has ever come to nuclear war. U-2 photographs revealing Soviet SS-4 missiles ninety miles from Florida. Kennedy's ExComm meeting in secret while the country went about its business. The naval quarantine. Khrushchev's two letters. The U-2 shot down over Cuba. Vasily Arkhipov refusing to fire the torpedo that would have started the war. The secret Jupiter deal in Turkey nobody was told about for decades. — a daily series with new episodes every day.