Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
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See also
- Bomber gap
- Cuba–Soviet Union relations
- Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ships
- List of nuclear close calls
- Mutual assured destruction
- Norwegian rocket incident
- Nuclear disarmament
- Nuclear warfare
- Nuclear weapon
- Soviet Navy
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