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UN Security Council Meeting

First broadcast: 26 October 1962

At the UN headquarters in New York, US Ambassador Adlai Stevenson confronts Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin about missile bases in Cuba. Stevenson presses Zorin for an admission, saying 'I'm prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over'.

Later, it comes to light that this is the moment just before Stevenson reveals photographic evidence of missile bases to the UN delegates.

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