Episode 198: The Cuban Missile Crisis

In this episode of Half-Arsed History, hear the tale of the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the closest points humanity ever came to global thermonuclear war.

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Image: Unknown Lockheed U-2 Pilot. Untitled image of Cuban missile bases. 16 October 1962. Annotated photograph. Via Wikimedia.

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