Cuba 1962. Close to the brink of annihilation;

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The Beatles recorded "My Bonnie" with Tony Sheridan. It was their first record.
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Smoking and exercise....

Oh what a combination!
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http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2009/04/1017

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Cuban Missile Crisis - world stands on brink nuclear war.
Never before in history has the world come closer to a general nuclear war.

The Most Dangerous Two Weeks in History...

In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union dispatched a fleet of commercial cargo ships filled with nuclear missiles, launchers and anti-aircraft guns--all under false manifests--across the Atlantic Ocean to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Forty thousand Soviet soldiers and technicians began clandestinely erecting an extensive array of armed missile sites, and aiming their nuclear-tipped medium range ballistic missiles at the United States. Nikita Khruschev and his key military advisors thought that the missiles would remain unnoticed until November, and then he planned to suddenly reveal them to the United States as a fait accompli. They were nearly successful. But in mid-October, with the Soviet tankers still enroute, American U-2 spy planes and CIA photo analysts detected several Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs) on Cuban soil, their sites still under construction. In the weeks that followed, both nations stood at the brink of nuclear holocaust.
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http://www.squidoo.com/cubanmissilecrisis

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India-China War, 1962
The Sino-Indian War involved a month of heavy fighting in harsh, high-altitude conditions, with huge logistical problems. There is no definitive history of the conflict, but reportedly some 1,300 Indian troops and 700 Chinese were killed before China declared a ceasefire, having seized much of the territory it claimed in both the northeast and northwest (Ladakh.) The fighting was followed by thirty years of standoff across the border of the disputed areas.
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http://www.film.queensu.ca/cj3b/Finds/FindsMilitary.html

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