The 13 Days The World Almost Ended - The Bomb Podcast: Kennedy & Khrushchev, BBC World Service Florian Wirtz [s3fiWlYuaVN]
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As the US and Soviet Union race for supremacy in the 1960s, Premier Khrushchev sizes up his rival, President John F. Kennedy.
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Hosts Max Kennedy and Nina Khrushcheva, relatives of the superpower leaders, explore their rise to power - one wealthy, smooth-talking and Harvard educated, the other a hardened Soviet war leader from a peasant family.
As they prepare to meet for the first and only time as world leaders, the stakes couldn't be higher: they are fierce rivals in the race to build ever more devastating missiles.
This is the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Nina Khrushcheva buono pasto is the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev and Max Kennedy is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, and the son of Robert F. Kennedy.
00:00 Opening moves of Kennedy and Krushchev
05:24 The descendants of two legendary adversaries meet
06:54 Sputnik
12:23 tom hanks The Kitchen debate: Nixon v Krushchev
15:18 Krushchev visits America
18:38 Berlin: The 'testicles of the West'
21:53 Bay of Pigs
24:09 Kennedy meets Krushchev in Vienna
Nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the USA prevent apocalypse? Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy, tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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