Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles

Published: Oct. 22, 2012, 8 a.m.

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It is 50 years since the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Witness hears from a Cuban who found himself caught up in events as the Soviet missiles were moved into place.

(Photo: US-taken aerial view of a Soviet Medium Range Ballistic Missile site on Cuba. Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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