jan 22, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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so basically USA had its nuclear warheads in Siberia next to Russia and then the USSR started putting their nukes in Cuba under Fidel Castro. America was like not cool dude and blockaded Russia. Russia was like holup bitch you have nukes near me you can't do that. So Kennedy and Kruschev are squaring off and this is almost the closest the world has been to Nuclear War

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