Berlin 1961

Hour 2: Where did the Cold War almost become a real war? We’ll revisit the rise of the Berlin Wall and the tense beginning of a decades-long U.S./Soviet conflict this hour with Frederick Kempe, journalist and president and CEO of the Atlantic Council. His new book is “Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth” (Putnam, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/1cce2fab-1fc8-4c44-8a32-14429281bac1/KERA_Think_06-13-11_HR_2.mp3

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