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Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia
29 Dec 2025 at 7:44am
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
29 Dec 2025 at 5:14am
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
29 Dec 2025 at 4:24am
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...

The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
7 Dec 2025 at 9:51am
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.

Cuban Missile Crisis - JFK Library
28 Dec 2025 at 2:12pm
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.

Cuban Missile Crisis - National Archives
28 Oct 2025 at 1:55am
At the height of the Cold War, for two weeks in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of thermonuclear war. Earlier that fall, the Soviet Union, under orders from Premier Nikita Khrushchev, began to secretly deploy a nuclear strike force in Cuba, just 90 miles from the United States.

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Origins, Tensions, and Resolution
26 Dec 2025 at 5:56pm
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.

Home ? Cuban Missile CrisisCuban Missile Crisis | Harvard Kennedy ...
29 Dec 2025 at 8:13am
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.

Cuban Missile Crisis - NHHC
28 Dec 2025 at 1:15pm
In the fall of 1962, the Soviet Union began construction on ballistic missile launch sites in Cuba. The United States responded with a naval blockade. For thirteen days, the fear of impending...

Cuban Missile Crisis | Research Starters - EBSCO
27 Dec 2025 at 8:01am
The Cuban Missile Crisis, a pivotal moment in Cold War history, occurred in October 1962 when the United States discovered that the Soviet Union was installing long-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.



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