Web Search Results for "Cuban missle crisis"

Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia
5 Dec 2025 at 8:13am
In response to these factors the Soviet and Cuban governments agreed, at a meeting between leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July 1962, to place nuclear missiles on Cuba to deter a future US invasion. Construction of launch facilities started shortly thereafter.

Cuban missile crisis | History, Facts, & Significance | Britannica
5 Dec 2025 at 1:25am
Cuban missile crisis, major confrontation at the height of the Cold War that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of a shooting war in October 1962 over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.

Cuban Missile Crisis - Causes, Timeline & Significance | HISTORY
4 Dec 2025 at 11:16pm
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet...

Cuban Missile Crisis - National Archives
28 Oct 2025 at 1:55am
The standoff nearly caused a nuclear exchange and is remembered in this country as the Cuban Missile Crisis. For 13 agonizing days?from October 16 through October 28?the United States and the Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis - JFK Library
4 Dec 2025 at 7:17am
For thirteen days in October 1962 the world waited?seemingly on the brink of nuclear war?and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Origins, Tensions, and Resolution
4 Dec 2025 at 12:24pm
Explore the origins and resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a pivotal Cold War standoff that brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 - National Security Archive
4 Dec 2025 at 3:02pm
Within 15 minutes of this briefing, President Kennedy?s brother Bobby, the Attorney General, was hosting Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin at the Justice Department to work out a negotiated solution to the missile crisis.

The Cuban Missile Crisis: How the World Came to the Brink of Nuclear ...
2 Dec 2025 at 12:20pm
In October 1962, the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile installations in Cuba thrust the United States and the Soviet Union to the precipice of nuclear confrontation, igniting widespread fear of an imminent global catastrophe.

Home ? Cuban Missile CrisisCuban Missile Crisis | Harvard Kennedy ...
4 Dec 2025 at 5:32pm
Harvard Kennedy School?s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has created this website to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.

The Cuban Missile Crisis - National Air and Space Museum
26 Oct 2023 at 11:56pm
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended over 60 years ago, but we still live in its shadow. Looking closely at what happened forces us to ask difficult questions about the world we have built together, what kind of world we want to build for the future, and how we might get there.



WHAT IS THIS? This is an unscreened compilation of results from several search engines. The sites listed are not necessarily recommended by Surfnetkids.com.