The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which comes this month, might once have been notable only to specialist historians. However, the renewed confrontation between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine has brought it into wider focus. With the threat of nuclear strikes returning to the public consciousness, is there anything we can still learn from how the two countries dealt with their potentially apocalyptic animosity in 1962? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
