oct 16, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
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-13 days of intense confrontation Soviet Union (Nikita Khrushchev) and Cuba (Fidel Castro) / U.S. (President John F. Kennedy) -> Brinkmanship (push the other to its limits)
-naval blocade on Cuba
-Soviet missiles in Cuba, capable of carrying a thermonuclear warhead, effectively targeted the majority of the continental United States.
-The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict
-> US doesn't invade Cuba + get rid of his military basis in Turkey
-> hot line btw white house and Kremlin 1963
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