October 15, 1962 marks the beginning of one of the most dangerous and critical moments of the Cold War, known as the “Missile Crisis.” On this day, the United States discovered that the Soviet Union had installed nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba, just 150 kilometers from the American coast. Humanity was on the brink of nuclear war, with the planet living for 13 days with the feeling that it might sink into total destruction. The Missile Crisis was the height of tension between the US and the Soviet Union, two superpowers in a power struggle after World War II. The Cuban Revolution of 1959, under Fidel Castro, overthrew the American-led government of Batista and installed a communist government, allied with the Soviet Union. The failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 strained Soviet-Cuban relations, with Castro seeking support for his defense. The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, seeing the presence of American missiles in Turkey and […]
Source: News Beast
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