Balance of Power

The Threat of a New Missile Crisis With Russia

A damaged building in Ramenskoye, Russia, on Sept. 10.
*Photographer: Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP/Getty Images*

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By Anthony Halpin

September 13, 2024 at 9:59 AM UTC

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Keir Starmer was born a month before the Cuban Missile Crisis, the standoff in October 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.