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1962: When World War III nearly began in the Caribbean

By First • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Literature

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 gets another look with Michael Dobbs’s ‘One Minute to Midnight’ which tells how the world came one or two miscommunications away from nuclear annihilation; and close enough to Jamaica for Soviet warships to be visible off the coast.