title: Kennedy and Khrushchev: 5. The crisis: Day one
author: BBC World Service
contenttype: article
publication: The Bomb
published: 2025-12-29T01:30:00+00:00
sourceurl: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8vc2
word_count: 51
Spy plane pictures reveal the Soviet missile build up to the Americans. Now they know what Khrushchev has really been up to. How will a furious President Kennedy respond? Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders, tell the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.