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In Oct 1962, at the level of the Cool War, america and the Soviet Union came up to the brink of nuclear discord over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Within this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs unveils precisely how close we came up to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to kill the U.S. naval foundation at Guantánamo; the handling of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba; and the astonishing story of any U-2 spy aircraft that received lost over Russia at the optimum of the turmoil.