The men behind the Cuban Missile Crisis - The Bomb Podcast: Kennedy & Khrushchev, BBC World Service (opens in new tab)

As the US and Soviet Union race for supremacy in the 1960s, Premier Khrushchev sizes up his rival, President John F\. Kennedy\. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 Hosts Max Kennedy and Nina Khrushcheva, relatives of the superpower leaders, explore their rise to power - one wealthy, smooth-talking and Harvard educated, the other a hardened Soviet war leader from a peasant family\. As they prepare to meet for the first and only time as world leaders, the stakes couldn't be higher: they ...