Reliving the Cuban missile crisis: 'We were going to be incinerated'

Oscar Larralde vividly remembers hearing the explosions that downed an American spy plane over Cuba in 1962; his island nation was in the eye of a nuclear standoff between the United States and Soviet Union. The then-17-year-old bank employee-turned-enlisted soldier was convinced the moment spelled his country's doom. "We were going...

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