Cuban Missile Crisis launch site. Aerial view of the medium range ballistic missile field launch site number two at Sagua la Grande, Cuba. This was th

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Cuban Missile Crisis launch site. Aerial view of the medium range ballistic missile field launch site number two at Sagua la Grande, Cuba. This was the second of two sites at Sagua la Grande were the Soviet Union had assembled nuclear missiles during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Photographed on 17th October 1962.

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Photo credit: © US AIR FORCE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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