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	Podcast:		The Bomb
	Episode:		Kennedy and Khrushchev: 7. Eyeball to eyeball
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:37:50
	Publish Date:		2026-01-12 01:30:00
	Description:		President Kennedy sends shockwaves around the world with a televised speech to the nation. He imposes a blockade on all ships bound for Cuba - Premier Khrushchev brands it “an act of piracy”. But he knows that hidden in a tiny Cuban port, there’s a Soviet ship laden with unimaginable destructive power. Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders, tell the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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