Calling all Y13 Historians, particularly those doing essay question 1. Also on TV tomorrow night is the film "Thirteen Days", based on Robert Kennedy's book of the same name that describes the moment the world came closest to a nuclear war, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Coming on the back of the 1961 Vienna summit (you've got the DVD) that Kennedy did not come out well from, Soviet leader Khrushchev thought he could throw his weight around and ordered missiles and launch facilities to be installed on an island only 80 miles from the American mainland. It does not start until 0.20 on BBC1 (early hours of Tuesday morning) so you may well need to record it, but it really is an excellent film that conveys the tension of the time very well.
Link to trailer to come...
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