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Neunundneunzig Luftballons...

In 1962 I was 14, and I wasn't particularly bothered by things on the other side of the Atlantic between Cuba and the USA that seemed too far away to affect me. I was happy to let them get on with it.

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Indeeed, but I was quite glad to be just outside an underground bunker.

Meaning the overall situation trying to survive a nuclear war..

None and you;?...

My recollections of Cuba were being very scared and then unsure what to do with brown paper bags.

Certainly don't remember advice such as this from the 80's

I suspect the views of a young teenager (I was 12 at the time) would be strongly influenced by those of the people around you. Whilst you may not have been moved by those events, those events were certainly capable of moving you.

Nope, only those in one place in the USA if some russian had actually been that stupid

The Yanks have always been happy that the “Cuban” aspect of the crisis has always been to the forefront and was apparently solved by the Soviets blinking first. They are less disposed to publicising the reason the Soviets installed missiles that could reach US soil from Cuba is that the US had already installed missiles that could reach the Soviet Union from Turkey and Italy . The ones in Turkey the US agreed to withdraw once the Soviets recalled theirs and to disguise that it was being done removed the Italian ones as well so it just looked like a change of military policy rather than the US having agreed to give some ground,They also agreed never to attempt to invade Cuba again but the US concessions never received much publicity as it destroys the myth of Kennedy beating Khrushchev.

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