Murge: The Cold War Front (Cold War Documentary) | Timeline

Enjoying our content? You'll love the Timeline History Channel app! Download now: http://bit.ly/37jAP3b Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. http://bit.ly/2O6zUsK For 13 days in 1962, the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Krushchev's decision to place nuclear weapons in Cuba sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis. But what's relatively unknown is that he was responding to an earlier perceived threat from America: the stationing of nuclear weapons in Murge, Italy - within striking distance of the USSR. We reveal how Murge was transformed unwittingly into a theatre of the Cold War. Content licensed from Java.