On October 22nd, 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis began.

Cozy relations between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev caused world wide anxiety as President Kennedy orders a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships transporting nuclear armaments to Cuba. In a TV address, JFK displays aerial photographs of missile silos, which he terms a clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace. UN ambassador Adlai Stevenson then isolates demands withdrawal of all nuclear installations in Cuba. Global tension mounts before an agreement is signed in which Khrushchev reluctantly complies with Kennedy's demands. Within weeks, the missiles are dismantled and shipped back to Russia, as storm clouds of nuclear disaster fade from the Cold War horizon.

點擊進入?yún)⑴c歷史上的今天節(jié)目>>>?

聲明：音視頻均來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)鏈接，僅供學習使用。本網(wǎng)站自身不存儲、控制、修改被鏈接的內(nèi)容。"滬江英語"高度重視知識產(chǎn)權(quán)保護。當如發(fā)現(xiàn)本網(wǎng)站發(fā)布的信息包含有侵犯其著作權(quán)的鏈接內(nèi)容時，請聯(lián)系我們，我們將依法采取措施移除相關(guān)內(nèi)容或屏蔽相關(guān)鏈接。