have this backdrop of tension. you have capitalism versus communism and it was palpable fear. in the united states and in the soviet union that the two sides were going to get into a nuclear war. the temper of the world is crisis. architect of the crisis, nikita khrushchev. as the head of the soviet union khrushchev was very ideological. he believed that the future belonged to communism. he said, america needs to be contained and the only way to do it is to create crises all around the american empire. khrushchev came to the u.n. in 1960 and he said we are grinding out missiles like sausages. we ll bury you. americans took it seriously. the toughness of the khrushchev speech did as some propaganda fuels of the fire that is now raging diplomatically between moscow and washington. to see if the soviets were
convinced that they re putting missiles in cuba. kennedy gets together a group of his closest advisers which becomes known as the ex-com, or the executive committee of the national security council. sir, we have never seen this kind of installation before. even in the soviet union? no, sir. how do you know this is a medium-range ballistic missile? the length, sir. u.s. intelligence showed half of the parts of the united states that would be hit by a nuclear attack and the figure was about 30 million americans were in danger of dying. my father, he wanted to be recognized as equal. if you re not recognized as equal, you challenge opposite side. now, what kind of military action are we capable of carrying out? and what may be some of the consequences? we could carry out an air strike within a matter of days. big debates. should we bomb?
resented the nature. by the 1950s, he was a fierce critic of arab governments trying to westernize societies and political systems. he wrote 24 books urging the return to sharia law and terrorism against the leading modern nation in the world, the united states. he was executed in 1966 for plotting to overthrow the government of the egyptian president. he had become a rock star among budding radicals, even as arab regimes were jailing and torturing his followers. we are muslims who believe in thus, in the jails of egypt and other arab tyrannies was born al qaeda. he was read and revered by
still largely stuck in time. crowd: juana! juana! juana! juana! juana: [ speaking spanish ] anthony: 93-year-old juana bacallao is very much a part of that past. juana: [ speaking spanish ] anthony: long before the revolution, she was a shining star at meyer lansky s tropicana singing for capone, luciano, you know the names. juana: [ speaking spanish ] juana: [ speaking spanish ]
have twitter every day. one things i love about coming to cuba is the fact that i can put my iphone away. who cares. look what we have around us. i hope cubans that continue to have access to free information, they will still want to preserve the family times. anthony: tourists have been coming to cuba for some time. predominantly europeans, many of them men of a certain age, looking for, how should we say, company. now it looks like americans looking to live out fantasies of godfather 2 will soon be able to do so. and it s all still here for them.