oct 1, 1962 - Brinkmanship

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-A foreign policy where two opposing countries are threatening each other with extreme violence and danger in order to win.

-Brinkmanship was referred to by John Foster Dulles when the Soviet Union and the United States were going back and forth threatening nuclear violence during the Cold War.

-During the confrontation, the Cuban Missile Crisis, both the Soviet Union and America were threatening each other. Although they got to the brink of violence, they both backed down and did not use nuclear weapons.

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