Cuban Missile Crisis

In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the world’s closest nuclear war. The nuclear missiles were installed by the Soviet just 90 miles off the coast of the United States. The Cuban Missile Crisis is part of the cold war, which also included the NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Nuclear weapons were build by the Warsaw while and they were competing with the NATO after world war II. They were trying to build stronger weapons and mutual defense group to go against one another. The Warsaw were related to Cuban Missile crisis because they both wanted strong nuclear weapons.

However, since the island was attack by the US in the year 1961 and had failed, they were looking to find ways to defense themselves from the US. In the year 1962, the Soviet Union tries to work secretly to build missile installation in Cuba so they can defense themselves from US. In October 15, 1962, when the reconnaissance photographs revealed Soviet missiles under construction in Cuba, and President F. Kennedy was informed about the in missile installations, he then quickly organized the EX-COMM group of advisers which are twelve important people who are able to manage the crisis. He wanted to prevent offensive weapons from the Soviet union and try to build their own strong weapons to use against U.S. On October, Kennedy discover and announced the missile installation and said that any nuclear weapons that launched from Cuba would be an attack on the United States. At this time it was known as the "Hottest moment of the Cold War" because if the U.S could have gotten in a bigger war if the Soviet union didn't remove their missiles. However Niketa Khrushchev send several letters to the Soviet Union and had decided to make an agreement to remove all nuclear weapons from Cuba and he had decided to accept the proposal by the Soviet union.