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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath

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The fall of 1962 was probably about as close as the world has ever come to destroying itself. President John F. Kennedy demanded that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev remove nuclear missile launching sites from Cuba. The two superpowers flexed their muscles, and kids in school practiced duck-and-cover drills. In the end, Russia blinked and the crisis was averted. But what if nuclear war had erupted instead? That's what the military simulation game "Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath" attempts to answer.

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