Cuban Missile Crisis

On October 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States closer than it ever did before to a nuclear war. It was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union lasting from October 15 to October 28 over missiles deployed in Cuba by the Soviet Union. This event taught the U.S. to face the horrible possibility that they and their world might cease to exist on the morrow. Back in 1959, Cuba’s…

The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 14 day long standstill during the Cold War. This conflict was between the Soviet Union and the United States of America which almost brought these two countries on the brink of war in the fall of 1962. This crisis started on October 14, 1962 when a U-2 reconnaissance plane returned from a flight over Cuba with pictures of long, canvas-covered objects. Over that next 24 hours American analysts looked at the photograph that these pilots had…

watch the movie 13 Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. There was so much tension in the world at the time with the two world superpowers being the USA and the USSR. Something was bound to happen. Mid October, the President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy was told that there were 32 Mid Range Ballistic Missiles in Cuba that were being assembled by Soviets. Eventually this escalated to around 40 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. This was a really big deal,…

One of the most defining moments in the relations between the United States and the Soviets in the course of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis that took place in 1962. It marked a time when the two nations were nearly involved in a war with the possibility of using nuclear weapons, and after it had passed, the two superpowers started pursuing ways of adjusting to one another, especially, aiming at preventing the use of nuclear weapons. The United States intelligence community (IC)…

27. Cuban Missile crisis Around 1960, the U.S was planning to put a naval blockade in Cuba and they wanted to remove all of the nuclear warfare from the area and prevent further creation of these missiles. But a secret meeting between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev led to an idea of placing multiple missile launch bases along the coast of Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S controlled Florida. When U.S air force planes had spotted these missile bases. While President Kennedy was working on…

that there was a series of offensive missile sites on the island of Cuba, which had been placed there by the Soviet Union. Kennedy went on to inform his audience that the Soviet Union had been ordered to remove all the missiles from Cuba and a quarantine had been placed on the island. The media played a large role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, mostly working behind the scenes. They worked to publicize President Kennedy’s public address, allowed the two…

talking to you about today. The Cuban missile crisis is a period of time where many people assisted into helping this event that could've sparked a nuclear War. The Cuban missile crisis happened in October of 1962 it played out for 13 days, and was the closest time for a nuclear war to erupt on earth. After the failed invasion of the pigs by the United States(USA) the Soviet Union(USSR) felt uneasy leaving Cuba defenseless, so they started shipping defensive missiles to Cuba. Cuba…

April 15, 2017, the North Korean government launched a missile test which failed just seconds after being deployed. The weekend of April 15 became extremely tense internationally, especially between the United States and North Korea. The United States had the fear North Korea would be testing not only ballistic missiles but conducting nuclear tests. The United States government has been on its toes speculating that North Korea will begin launching its sixth nuclear-weapons test soon. The United…

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred over 13 days (October 16th to 28th, 1962) during the Cold War, the post-WWII state of tension between the West (led by the United States) and the Communist East (led by the USSR). The Cold War was a war of ideologies, fueled by US fear of Communist expansion into the Western hemisphere. The USSR’s alliance with Cuba was seen as a communist ‘invasion’ and met with panic. Since the introduction of nuclear weaponry to the world stage at the end of WWII, the US and…

intelligence provided by Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban missile crisis, it is of utmost important to examine the climate of the intelligence community in the United States leading up to the crisis. On September 19th, 1962, about a month before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) on “The military Buildup in Cuba” considered the possibility of the Soviet’s deployment of medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) to Cuba.…