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A True Movie Moment.(film premiere of 13 Days in Moscow confirms real danger of Cuban missle crisis)(Brief Article)

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When the Cuban- missile-crisis movie "13 days" was screened in Moscow last month for a group of senior Soviets involved in the cold-war standoff, several Americans in attendance learned that the crisis was even more dangerous than they knew. In the postscreening Q & A, retired Soviet Adm. Vitaly Agafonov shocked former Defense secretary Robert McNamara and other former American officials: "We had 22 torpedoes on each submarine and we had one nuclear torpedo per submarine," he revealed. His ...

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