Was Khrushchev Justified To Deploy Nuclear Missiles To Cuba?

I agree with the previous writer in terms of the risk Khrushchev took by placing nuclear missiles on Cuba. However, the risk lay largely in the fact that the Soviet deployment was done in secret rather than an in the open deployment of these weapons itself. I would even speculate that a skillful public announcement of the Soviet intentions, perhaps through the United Nations, in which the Khrushchev explained that US nuclear missiles in Europe pointing at the Soviet Union is comparable for the United states facing Soviet missiles in Cuba, would have a had great change of success.

In my opinion, Khrushchev was justified to deploy nuclear missiles to Cuba for geostrategic reasons. The Soviet Union was aware of the nuclear gab, which was, according