Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis 

 

1-The Cuban Missile Crisis (known as The October Crisis in Cuba) was a confrontation between theSoviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War.

2-In September 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments began to surreptitiously build bases in Cuba for a number of medium- and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States.

3-This action followed the 1958 deployment of Thor IRBMs in the UK and Jupiter IRBMs to Italy and Turkey in 1961; more than 100 U.S.-built missiles having the capability to strike Moscow with nuclear warheads.

4-On October 14, 1962, a United States U-2 photoreconnaissance plane captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba.