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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba1.jpgA deactivated Soviet-era SS-4 medium range nuclear capable ballistic missile and other Soviet-made Cold War relics are displayed at La Cabana fortress in Havana. The 13-day missile crisis began on October 16, 1962, when then-President John F. Kennedy first learned the Soviet Union was installing missiles in Cuba, barely 145 km off the Florida coast. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba2.jpgThe date "October 1962" is painted on a deactivated missile at a site displaying Soviet-made Cold War relics at La Cabana fortress in Havana earlier this year. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba3.jpgA wing of a US Air Force U2 reconnaissance aircraft downed by the Soviets in Cuba in 1962 is displayed along with other Soviet-made Cold War relics at La Cabana fortress in Havana today. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba4.jpgA deactivated Soviet-era SS-4 medium range nuclear capable ballistic missile is displayed at La Cabana fortress in Havana. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba5.jpgA tourist takes a picture beside a deactivated Soviet-era SS-4 medium range nuclear capable ballistic missile on display at La Cabana fortress in Havana earlier this year. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba6.jpgA deactivated Soviet-era SS-4 medium range nuclear capable ballistic missile is displayed at the La Cabana fortress in Havana. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba7.jpgA deactivated V-75 surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile is displayed at a site with Soviet-made Cold War relics at La Cabana fortress in Havana. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba8.jpgTourists visit a site displaying Soviet-made Cold War relics at La Cabana fortress in Havana. Photograph: Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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50 years since the Cuban missile crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/10/cuba9.jpgTourists arrive in a taxi to see Soviet-made Cold War relics displayed at La Cabana. Photograph: Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
