Cuban Missile Crisis

Never before and hopefully never again have we been so close to nuclear war. Many nuclear warheads were poised for launch in Cuba aimed at the United States. Five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, the missiles might have meant the end of humanity. In the following will be described how close the world actually came to nuclear war.
On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro was declared the premier of Cuba. From the start the U.S. saw Castro’s ways to be communist, but he denied all accusations. The U.S. eventually saw through his act and cut off trade with Cuba on May 27, 1960. That’s when Nikita Khrushchev, the premier of the Soviet Union, stepped in. Khrushchev agreed to ship the supplies needed to Cuba because of the cut off with the U.S. Khrushchev and Castro became allies and also good friends.
Then the U.S. started training Cuban exiles to deploy a surprise attack on Cuba. The opera



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tion was called Operation Pluto. On April 17, 1961 the troops were moved into a bay known as the Bay of Pigs. The exiles were quickly defeated. Those who weren’t killed were held prisoner by the Cuban Government.

The Cuban Missile Crisis could have been a lot worse. According to an article, after the Soviet Union supposedly “destroyed all of their weapons” they kept some hidden from the U.S. If President Kennedy had found out about this the crisis might have gone on much longer and might actually have started a nuclear war.

On October 30, 1962, after the threat of nuclear war had cooled down a bit, the U.S. and the Soviet Union established a “hot-line” to prevent the risk of an accidental nuclear war.

The next fourteen days are known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 15, 1962 a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft spotted the missile installations and re

Some topics in this essay:
Cuban Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Cold War, John F Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Nuclear Weapon, United States, President John F Kennedy,

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