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At the time that U.S. military forces worldwide go to DEFCON 3 and encourage all NATO forces to do the same. Supreme NATO Commander Norstad, however, refuses to do so. General Norstad was scheduled to relinquish his NATO command on Nov. 1, 1962, but the Cuban missile crisis that October prompted NATO to ask him to stay in the post until early in 1963.

As the crisis deepened, the U.S. went to DEFCON 2 for the first time in history. On October 28, 1962, the United States sends instructions to its NATO allies that military actions to attack Cuba are imminent. At the height of nuclear brinkmanship between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Kennedy agrees to dedicate part of his nuclear arsenal to NATO. Khrushchev the same day broadcasts on Radio Moscow, effectively ends the missile crisis.

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