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It was a threat:

American people and EX-COMM wanted to remove the missiles i.e. airstrike. Would lead to USSR taking Berlin--->escalation...

Quarantine was very dangerous - could easily be seen as an act of agression - leading to war.

U2 shot down by Communists over Cuba...

It wasn't a threat:

Neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev wanted war therefore there was no airstrike.

There was a compromised peace ---> agreement (turkey=secret)

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Closer than we have ever been before or since which is too d*** close!

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I think the usual figure quoted is about 90 miles.

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The united states and the soviet union came very close to nuclear war during the?

Cuban Missile Crisis


When did the US and the soviet union come very close to the nuclear war?

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What event in the 1960s brought the world into nuclear war?

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What was the crisis in Cuban missile crisis?

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What the Cuban missile crisis?

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How did the nuclear war start in 1962?

Nuclear War did NOT start in 1962. If it had we wouldn't be here and this web site wouldn't exist. We got very close to it with the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it didn't happen.


What incident brought the world to the edge of a nuclear war?

The Cuban missile crisis.After Fidel Castro led a successful revolt to sieze power in Cuba in 1959 he was courted and mentored buy the Soviet Union, who then secretly installed armed rocket silo's in Cuba Pointed at the USA from less than 100 miles away. It did not take the US, under J F Kennedy, to the discover them. The Soviets were told to remove them or else. The world waited with bated breath. Then the Soviets removed them.


What is Cuban missils crisis?

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What was one result of the Cuban missile crisis?

Because the world came extremely close to nuclear war, during the Cuban missile crisis, it made people very nervous, and prolonged the distrust and hostility between the US and the USSR, which really ended only in 1989, with the collapse of the USSR.


In october 1962 what did the US and the Soviet Union come close to war over?

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