1 gen 1962 anni - Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis: The 1962 nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States when the Soviets attempted to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Perhaps the most perilous episode of that conflict arrived in Autumn 1962. In a somber televised address on October 22, Kennedy revealed that U.S. reconnaissance planes had spotted Soviet-built bases for intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba — easily capable of striking the continental United States. Some of those weapons had already been installed, and more were on the way. Kennedy announced that the United States would impose a “quarantine on all offensive military equipment” bound for Cuba. As the world held its breath, ships carrying Soviet missiles turned back on October 25. After a week of tense negotiations, both sides made concessions: Kennedy pledged not to invade Cuba, and Khrushchev promised to dismantle the missile bases. Kennedy also secretly ordered U.S. missiles to be removed from Turkey, at Khrushchev’s insistence. The Cuban missile crisis proved the closest the Cold War came to a nuclear exchange. The terrifying stakes led to a slight thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations. As National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy put it, both sides were chastened by “having come so close to the edge.”

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