The Cuban Missile Crisis nearly started nuclear war
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union perilously close to nuclear war, highlighting the fragility of global peace during the Cold War.
In October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S., sparked a terrifying 13-day standoff between President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev.
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