States has been problematic since the end of World War II.

In Germany, for example, Russia constructed the Berlin Wall

separating East and West Berlin against the will of the

United Nations. In the late 1950's and early 1960's, the

two countries engaged in nuclear weapons testing in the

atmosphere. 1The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an invasion of

Cuba, sponsored by the CIA, which attempted to overthrow

the "Castro Regime". It failed miserably.

This invasion gave the Soviets an excuse to begin

shipping arms to Cuba in 1961. The Russian

President(Premier) had given the order to send the equipment

to start building nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba.

2The United States government knew that the arms were being

shipped into Cuba, but they were not told that nuclear

weapons were included in several of the suspicious crates

that were photographed in some of the weekly reconnaissance

On Oct. 16,when President Kennedy was alerted

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