Dec 9, 2025
‘After almost destroying the world, our families are friends’: the thrilling podcast from JFK and Khrushchev’s relatives | Podcasts
In October 1962, the world came closer to destruction than at any other point in modern times. After a US surveillance plane discovered that Soviet nuclear missile sites were being built in Cuba, less than 100 miles from the US mainland, President John F Kennedy responded by ordering the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet to impose a naval blockade around the island. Almost two weeks of impossible tension…