Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos - a podcast by BBC World Service

In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Jo Fidgen spoke to American Intelligence officer Dino Brugioni who played a crucial role as the crisis unfolded. Dino was a CIA expert whose job was to interpret the photographs of missiles in Cuba.
This programme was first broadcast in 2012.

(Photo: Dino Brugioni. Credit: The Washington Post/Getty Images)

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