# Nikita Khrushchev

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days To Prevent Disaster

In October 1962, the United States discovered Soviet nuclear missile sites under construction in Cuba. What followed was a thirteen day confrontation in which decisions made in Washington, Moscow and Havana raised the possibility of nuclear war - and made the abstract Cold War doctrine of mutually …

The Nixon v. Khrushchev Kitchen Debate

In July 1959, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev stood inside a model American kitchen in Moscow and started arguing. The subject? Washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, and the meaning of a good life. Nixon was visiting the American National Exhibition, designed to showcase the consumer …

S2E22 Mary Frates

Way before Mary Frates knew that one day she would coordinate the first Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, she was a Ponca City High School grad attending a small college in the nation's capital. There she met Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, and Richard Nixon among others. A classmate was Nancy Pelos…

The Cuban Missle Crisis - Thirty Seconds from Total Nuclear Annihilation (Part One)

Send us Fan Mail In October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear annihilation than most of us will ever fully appreciate. For thirteen extraordinary days, two superpowers confronted one another across ninety miles of Caribbean sea, and the future of civilisation hung in the balance. But the Cuban…

UKRAINE - Russia’s Long Quest to Subjugate Ukraine — Part One - EUGEN FKNKEL

Russia’s Long Quest to Subjugate Ukraine — Part OneEugene Finkel, author of Intent to Destroy: Russia’s 200-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine, traces the deep historical roots of Russia’s effort to dominate Ukraine, beginning with the 17th-century Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the imperial p…

Episode 360 Ground Zero: JMWAVE And The Cuba Question Miniseries Part 2

In this second installment of our 15-part miniseries, Ground Zero: JM WAVE and the Cuban Question, we explore the chaotic aftermath of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the secret agreements that fundamentally altered President John F. Kennedy's relationship with the anti-Castro exile movem…

The Stand, Episode 6: What You May Not Realize Will Be Lost If The West Falls

“Colonizer” and “Oppressor” are not the full story of the West, indeed much of what it is in us all that resists, opposes, overthrows the “Colonizer” and “Oppressor” first arose in the West, & was first articulated in the West. Indeed, exalted in the West, hallowed in the West. Now there are men th…

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days the World Held Its Breath

In October 1962, American reconnaissance photographs showed Soviet missile installations under construction in Cuba, placing nuclear-capable weapons within range of much of the United States. For thirteen days, President John F. Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, m…

720. Revolution in the Soviet Empire: Revenge of the Red Army (Part 2)

Three days into the Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet Union, had the revolution escalated nationwide? How did the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev respond? And, with the threat of a Red Army invasion, would Hungary abandon the Soviet Pact?  Join Dominic and Tom as they reach the violent denou…