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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Leary Library fielding topics that she couldn’t—orIn June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War and more perilous. It was in that hot summer that the Berlin Wall was constructed, which would divide the world for another twenty eight years. Then two months later, and for the first time in