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Airson 13 là ann an 1962, bha daoine a’ gabhail eagal fhad ’s a bha Ceannadach agus Khruschev a’ feuchainn ris an t-saoghal fhaighinn air ais bho bhith faisg air lèirsgrios niùclasach. Staing a bha air a leantainn air telebhiseanan air feadh an t-saoghail, dealbhan a lasadh caismeachdan an aghaidh armachd niùclasach agus anns am biodh ùidh mhòr aig daoine air taobh an iar na h-Alba is iad a’ faicinn bàtaichean-aigeil niùclasach Ameireaganach a tighinn a-steach do Holy Loch. Dha Brian MacUilleim agus Kay NicLeòid, ’s e na seòladairean agus na saighdearan Ameireaganach a’ tighinn chun a’ bhaile aca a dh’ atharraicheadh beatha làitheil. Chaidh Albannaich an cuir air Taobh an Iar na Gearmailt, mar phàirt de làthaireachd armailteach a’ dìon crìoch bhon Aonadh Shobhietach agus Caidreabhaich Còrdadh Warsaw, agus ann an Steòrnabhagh, chaidh buidheann a chur air chois an aghaidh gluasad a dh’ fhaodadh tachairt de 10, 000 saighdear NATO chun an eilein.

For 13 days in 1962, people feared the worst as Kennedy and Khruschev negotiated the world back from the brink of nuclear abyss. A crisis that was followed on TV sets across the world, images that would spark a tide of anti-nuclear protest and resonate particularly with people in the west of Scotland as they watched the arrival of US nuclear submarines into Holy Loch.

For Brian Wilson and Kay Macleod, the arrival of American sailors and military personnel to their town would change everyday life. In West Germany, Scots found themselves deployed as part of a massive military presence defending the border from the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, while in Stornoway a group mobilised to protest against the potential relocation of 10,000 Nato troops to the island.

In Gaelic with English subtitles.