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Only after the Cuban Missile Crisis – humanity’s closest encounter with nuclear Armageddon – did US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev grasp the security risks of unchecked nuclear competition and the merits of a test ban to stop it.

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It's hard to grasp, but it's an incredible fact.

And I began to grasp why it's said that the Koran is really the Koran only in Arabic.

Now looking at these images, it's difficult to grasp the scale of this operation, which can already be seen from space and could grow to an area the size of England.

This is not beyond the grasp of ordinary people.

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