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Cuban Missile Crisis turns 60
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Cuban Missile Crisis turns 60

Sixty years ago, the world got as close it's ever been to nuclear war. For 13 days, the US and the USSR played a dangerous cat-and-mouse game over Soviet nuclear missiles parked in Cuba. The Cold War nearly got hot.

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Another nuclear showdown?

Sixty years ago on Friday, the US and the USSR found themselves in a nose-to-nose nuclear crisis. What lessons does the Cuban Missile Crisis have for us now?