21 ottob 1962 anni - Cuban missile crisis (Oct. 1962)

Descrizione:

(1962) confrontation btwn US & USSR over Soviet missiles in Cuba;

JFK & Khrushchev playing "nuclear chicken", JFK rejected air force proposal for "surgical" bombing, (Oct 22 1962) orders naval quarantine of Cuba, demanded immediate removal of threatening weaponry; Told Khrushchev that any attack on US from Cuba → nuclear retaliation against Russia;

US waited while USSR ships approached patrol line est by US Navy off Cuba, Ground forces in Cuba already had nuclear weapon, authorized to launch if US attack;

(Oct. 28) Khrushchev agrees to pull missiles out of Cuba, US agreed to end quarantine, not invade Cuba, remove some missiles from Turkey;

Fallout from this event → Khrushchev removed from Kremlin; Gov't in Moscow never wanted to be humiliated again in nuclear stand-off→ launched program of military expansion;

Negotiations → prohibiting trial nuclear explosions in atmosphere (late 1963);

Installation (Aug 1963) of Moscow-Washington hotline - permitted immediate comm in crisis