... strategic status quo . The following two weeks the world was holding its breath in anticipation of a full-scale nuclear war. The firm US stance eventually led the Russians to concede and dismantle their missile base. The missile crisis was a tremendous shock to the two superpowers, unlike the Korean war of 1950 - 53, the confrontation this time was not between substitutes, but between the Americans and ... the Soviets themselves, who were both looking at the prospect of having each other's nuclear missiles bearing down on themselves. It is this near apocalyptic prospect ... as the Cuba...

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