Cuban missile crisis: "wildly paranoid"? (the threat was very real)

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Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis has some revisiting fallout shelters

TERRY EVANS

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

National Archives

An aerial photograph shows Medium Range Ballistic Missile Launch Site Two at San Cristobal, Cuba, during the Cuban Missile Crisis on November 1, 1962.

Memories of those wildly paranoid times were revived this month with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the two-week standoff with the Soviet Union over the placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

The Cold War confrontation ended on Oct. 28, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy brokered a dismantling-of-the-missiles deal with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

The threat of nuclear war subsided.

The fallout shelters, however, remained very real.

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