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oct 16, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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A confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. Russia was trying to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. US blockaded the ships carrying the missiles and threatened nuclear war if they didn't turn the boat around. Russia eventually did. Closest we ever came to nuclear war.

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oct 16, 1962
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~ 62 years ago
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