The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war. Garfield by Jim Davis The Latest ...

and eventually the nuclear missiles that would ignite the 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962. Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

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The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction ... They discovered the missile sites in October 1962. They put major American towns and cities within range of Soviet nuclear ...

The crisis that developed over Cuba in October 1962 almost resulted in nuclear war and worldwide destruction. The USA discovered that the USSR was constructing missile sites for nuclear weapons in ...

He drew a parallel between the Cuban Missile Crisis ... US stock market bottomed seven days into that two-week crisis in October 1962, and recouped most of its losses before the actual resolution.

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the ... The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies.

1962's Other Crisis: India and China go to War While often overshadowed by the Cuban Missile Crisis, the conflict still colors relations between the two nations to this day. With the world’s ...