armed forces were at their highest state of readiness and Soviet forces in Cuba were prepared to

use nuclear weapons deployed on Cuban beaches to defend the island if it was invaded. However,

histories opinion of the conflict is more that of praise and commendation because of the “bravery”

of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev. However, this extreme,

14 day, tension mounting conflict was really a contest of two men’s egos. For example: during

President Kennedy’s presidential campaign, he had repeatedly spoken of a missile gap between the

U.S. and Soviet Union, meaning that neither nation had the capabilities of striking each other from

each ones mainland. Despite being briefed by the Pentagon that the U.S. had more missiles than

the Soviets, Kennedy maintained his claim that the U.S. had less. After the 1960 election,

Khrushchev began to test the new president, and in the summer of 1961 Khrushchev applied

pressure to Berlin and eventually built a wall surrounding West Berlin. In response, Kennedy felt

it necessary to inform Khrushchev that there was in fact no missile gap. Undoubtedly a u

two men to keep world peace stable and prevent the occurrence of a nuclear war. The United

powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the

proposed removing Soviet missiles and personnel if the U.S. would guarantee not to invade Cuba.

observed from today’s standpoint, the Cuban Missile Crisis was, besides being a test of egos,

within the government, Kennedy concluded to first impose a naval quarantine around Cuba,

it’s own population, which was very different than that during Stalin’s rule. It reduced the powers

matter of a few years, maybe months, before Soviet technology would make this possible. Most of

construction in Cuba.. Kennedy immediately organized the EX-COMM, a group of his twelve

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