The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

This video clip from the series War and Peace in the Nuclear Age features footage from the U.S. Air Force film Cuban Crisis, which details the U.S. response, under President John F. Kennedy, to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s attempt to install medium and intermediate nuclear missiles on Cuban soil, with the support of Cuban revolutionary and leader Fidel Castro. The footage imparts the perilousness of those circumstances, which many feared would lead to nuclear war and possibly global annihilation.

Cuban Crisis | WGBH | 1962 This video clip and associated transcript appear from 00:00 - 08:28 in the full record.