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Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Max Hastings, journalist, military historian, and author most recently of Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, joins the show to talk about the world’s brush with World War III.
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• 01:41 Introduction
• 01:59 From journalism to history
• 07:06 Recollections
• 09:40 Castro and the Bay of Pigs
• 19:46 Overflights
• 26:46 Quarantine and blockade
• 33:45 Russian floundering
• 35:52 Dealmaking
• 40:07 Uncomfortable proximity
• 42:36 Spheres of influence
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Times
• 01:41 Introduction
• 01:59 From journalism to history
• 07:06 Recollections
• 09:40 Castro and the Bay of Pigs
• 19:46 Overflights
• 26:46 Quarantine and blockade
• 33:45 Russian floundering
• 35:52 Dealmaking
• 40:07 Uncomfortable proximity
• 42:36 Spheres of influence
Follow along on Instagram
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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