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oct 1, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

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oct 1, 1962
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~ 63 years ago