Peter Hoskin

From the archives: The Cuban Missile Crisis

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48 years ago this week, the Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end. Here are the two Spectator leading articles that bookended our coverage of those thirteen momentous days in October:

Trial of strength, The Spectator, 26 October, 1962

The West faces a grave situation. It would be absurd to think that the showdown on Cuba is only a Soviet-American affair.

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