Showtime is making a limited series about the Cuban Missle Crisis
Reminding us all that any week can be Cold War Week as long as we keep the spirit of paranoia, jingoism, and the fear of sudden human extinction alive in our hearts, Showtime has announced that it’s working on a limited series based on the Cuban Missile Crisis. According to Deadline, the series—based on James Blight and Janet M. Lang’s nonfiction book The Armageddon Letters—will be written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, whose 2002 Tom Clancy adaptation The Sum Of All Fears featured the nuclear destruction of Baltimore as part of its plot.