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The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
Some misunderstandings can be remedied by a simple explanation. Others end friendships or marriages. The most frightening miscommunications are those between nuclear-armed superpowers. In October, 1962, near the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet …