Synopsis
Newsreel footage from 1962, when Fidel Castro's arrangement with then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to install nuclear-weapon sites triggered off the Cuban missile crisis.
BBC Four
S1999E01: The 40-Year Face-Off (1): Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev - How It All Began
Aired 02 Jan 1999 at 8:00pm (UTC)