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Topic: Cuban Missile Crisis

Chernobyl Nuclear reactor 4 which exploded in 1986 (Getty Images/MediaProduction)

Is Zaporizhzhya the next Chernobyl?

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Biden and John F Kennedy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

JFK to Joe Biden: Avoid my mistakes!

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
Scene still from "Dr. Strangelove"

Tom Clavin - Smithsonian.com
Fidel Castro (top) and Nikita Khrushchev

A terrifying October surprise

Roger Catlin
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CIA reference photograph of Soviet R-12 intermediate-range nuclear ballistic missile (NATO designation SS-4) in Red Square, Moscow

Noam Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
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Peter Orsi
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