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The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Top billed cast
Kevin CostnerKenneth O'Donnell
Bruce GreenwoodJohn F. Kennedy
Steven CulpRobert F. Kennedy
Dylan BakerRobert McNamara
Michael FairmanAdlai Stevenson
Henry StrozierDean Rusk
Frank WoodMcGeorge Bundy
Kevin ConwayGen. Curtis LeMay
Tim KelleherTed Sorensen
Len CariouDean Acheson
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