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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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was the closest the world ever came to thermonuclear war. "Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread…and we weren't counting by days or hours, but minutes." 1 The United States was at its highest readiness state ever and the Soviets were ready to use nuclear weapons on the battlefield to defend ....
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....tro was also looking for a way to prevent what he felt was an inevitable second attack. In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union quickly worked to build its secret missile installations in Cuba.
The crises began for the U.S. on October 15, 1962 when reconnaissance photographs revealed the Soviet missile sites under construction in Cuba. October 14, 1962, Richard Heyser, a veteran pilot, flew a U2 spy plane over Cuba. He had no idea that this routine flight wasn't "routine". The pictures wer.... |
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