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Episode 4 The road to resolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3 Dangerous days . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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On Havana waterfront, Cuban soldiers wait by anti-aircraft artillery, after receiving warning of an invasion from the United States

Max Hastings "If the Americans had bombed Cuba in 1962, escalation would have been almost inevitable" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2 Broken ties & a secret pact . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1 Tensions mount . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John F Kennedy with US Army officials during the Cuban missile crisis

“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated

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Serhii Plokhy discusses the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and reveals just how close the world came to nuclear disaster. (Image by Getty Images)

How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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John Withington discusses history’s most notorious political killings – from the first known assassination to the plots to kill Franz Ferdinand and JFK. (Image by Getty Images)

Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFK . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Goodman responds to your questions on the decades of geopolitical tension that shaped relations between east and west in the second half of the 20th century. (Image by Getty Images)

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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JFK: the path to power . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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President Kennedy gives a televised speech, 22 October 1962. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosemary Kennedy (right), the eldest Kennedy daughter. Pictured here with her mother Rose (centre) and sister Kathleen, during the family's residency in Britain in the late 1930s. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The lost Kennedy: the tragic life of JFK’s sister Rosemary

Photo of JFK in the motorcade

Who killed JFK? The case that can never be closed

Shoppers crowd a Woolworths store in 1955

Q&A Has there always been panic buying? And when have people panic shopped through history?

John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon

Does history show that age affects US presidents’ performance? Plus, how old is too old?