Historical event

Cuban Missile Crisis

Date: October 16-28, 1962

A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which is considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

Tags: conflict, cold war, cuba, usa, united states, soviet union, ussr, nuclear war, kennedy, khrushchev, missiles, brinkmanship, cuban missile crisis, international relations, geopolitics

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