Though this event gets most of the historical press, you might not be aware that it wasn’t the only time the Cold War almost boiled over because of a petty squabble or misunderstanding. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed, and President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to discuss their issues rather than bomb us all back to the Stone Age. There was a standoff, a few tense phone calls were exchanged, and we could have all been annihilated at the push of a button.
learned of the deal and set up a “quarantine” around Cuba, which is sort of the non-combat version of a blockade, to stop shipments of weapons. The long and short of it is that, following the Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba made a deal with the Soviet Union for nuclear weapons. The Cuban Missile Crisis is often remembered as the cautionary tale of how close we could come to World War III in the blink of an eye. Misconception: The Cuban Missile Crisis was the only time the world came close to nuclear war.
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