Tag: Cuban Missile Crisis

Podcast

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

14th October 2022
Tagged as: Castro, Cold War, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev, Missile, Nuclear, Spying, U-2, USA

A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Podcast

28th October 1962: End of the Cuban Missile Crisis as Khrushchev agrees to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba

28th October 2021
Tagged as: America, Cold War, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Nuclear, Russia, United States, USSR

Because America’s part of the agreement was kept secret, Khrushchev appeared to have ‘lost’. The reality is that both sides made concessions.