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Cuban Missile Crisis Nikita Khrushchev
3,844 wordsHistory: Was II: Cuban Missile Crisis Research Paper November 03, 1998 Cuban Missile Crisis Research Paper Overview The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever, and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet missiles wer...
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Cuban Missile Crisis President John F Kennedy
948 wordsNuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread and we werent counting days or hours, but minutes. Soviet General and Army Chief of Operations, Anatoly Gribkov The closest the World has ever been to nuclear war was with The Cuban Missile Crisis. The lives of millions lay in the ability of President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev to reach an agreement. The crisis began when the United States discovered that just ninety miles from the coast of Florida, the Soviet Union had set up nuclea...
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