Daily: MASSIVE ATTACK – Why the Cuban Missile Crisis matters today

<p>The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963 might be the closest the world has ever come to actual nuclear war&nbsp;– but do we really understand what went on between Kennedy, the USA and Kruschev’s USSR? Ukraine-born Harvard Professor of History <strong>Serhii Plokhy</strong> tells Jude Rogers about his new book <em>Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis</em> –&nbsp;and what this fatal moment in the confrontation between East and West can tell us about today’s unspoken second Cold War.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“Diplomatic telegrams were so slow that Kruschev thought the best way to communicate with Kennedy was openly, through Radio Moscow.”</em></li><li><em>“The technology has changed since the Cuban Missile Crisis but human nature hasn’t.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“Today we’re back in the uncharted waters of the nuclear arms race before the Cuban Crisis.”</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Jude Rogers. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Logo and branding by Mark Taylor. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>The Bunker is a Podmasters production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>