Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://gographicsoutput.com/video/nmlFYmlap8l.html Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The 13 Days The World Almost Ended - The Bomb Podcast: Kennedy & Khrushchev, BBC World Service Florian Wirtz [YwPffWGntD1] Health Updated on August 05, 2026 EDT — Published on August 05, 2026 EDT Tag: #Florian Wirtz, #pete davidson, #john travolta, #joshua vanAs 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 czechia 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 are fierce rivals in the race to build ever more devastating missiles. This is the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.Nina Khrushcheva buono pasto is the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev and Max Kennedy is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, and the son of Robert F. Kennedy.00:00 Opening moves of Kennedy and Krushchev05:24 The descendants of two legendary adversaries meet06:54 Sputnik12:23 tom hanks The Kitchen debate: Nixon v Krushchev15:18 Krushchev visits America18:38 Berlin: The 'testicles of the West'21:53 Bay of Pigs24:09 Kennedy meets Krushchev in ViennaNuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the USA prevent apocalypse? Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy, tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.Watch more episodes of The Bomb here ----------------This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here:Instagram Twitter Facebook BBC World Service website Thanks for watching and subscribing!#BBCWorldService #WorldService #kennedy #krushchev #cubanmissilecrisis
Tag: #Florian Wirtz, #pete davidson, #john travolta, #joshua vanAs 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 czechia 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 are fierce rivals in the race to build ever more devastating missiles. This is the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.Nina Khrushcheva buono pasto is the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev and Max Kennedy is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, and the son of Robert F. Kennedy.00:00 Opening moves of Kennedy and Krushchev05:24 The descendants of two legendary adversaries meet06:54 Sputnik12:23 tom hanks The Kitchen debate: Nixon v Krushchev15:18 Krushchev visits America18:38 Berlin: The 'testicles of the West'21:53 Bay of Pigs24:09 Kennedy meets Krushchev in ViennaNuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the USA prevent apocalypse? Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy, tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.Watch more episodes of The Bomb here ----------------This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here:Instagram Twitter Facebook BBC World Service website Thanks for watching and subscribing!#BBCWorldService #WorldService #kennedy #krushchev #cubanmissilecrisis