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Well, if i knew that some dangerous people were constructing missiles, i would want to stop it, so he was probably scared and wanted to keep the country safe without causing too much of a problem.

The Soviets already knew that the US had nuclear missiles in Turkey, placing nuclear missiles in Cuba would simply achieve nuclear parity. Also following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion the leader of Cuba Fidel Castro wanted assurance from the Soviets of their security against future invasion, the Soviets believed that nuclear missiles would provide this security at the least cost.

The US withdrew missiles from Turkey.

The answer is yes, lasers can destroy incoming missiles and bombs.

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Cuba. The reason the USSR put missiles there was to get rid of the U.S. Jupiter missiles in Turkey. Both were removed.

No there are not missiles in Cuba. they were moved to Africa to combat the negro crisis. They are hard wired to explode simultaneously when Puff Daddy's next radio single debuts. Unfortunately due to the proximity from Africa to Israel, Jewish secret agents intervened and moved Sean Combs from rapper to businessman changing his name to P Diddy and rewarding him with a vast fortune made from interest gained on reclaimed Nazi gold that had been sitting in a Swiss bank account over the last 50 years.

Kennedy prevented completion of missile bases in Cuba by approving a naval blockade. This in turn stopped supplies from making it to Cuba.

this was called the Cuban missile crisis held in the Bay of Pigs during the Kennedy administration. The Cuban Missile Crisis (The Bay of Pigs was a CIA-backed invasion of Cuba by Cubans from the US. Totally different time and event.)

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. In September 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments began to surreptitiously build bases in Cuba for a number of medium- and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United States. On October 14, a United States U-2 photo-reconnaissance plane captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba. The Americans feared the Soviet expansion of Stalinism, but for a Latin American country to ally openly with the USSR was regarded as unacceptable, given the Soviet-American enmity since the end of the WWII in 1945. Such an involvement would also directly defy the Monroe Doctrine, a United States policy which held that European powers should not interfere with states in the Western Hemisphere.

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For the same reason the USSR government wanted the US missiles in Turkey removed.

They were seen as a threat and a provocation.

Both the US and USSR got the missiles removed that they wanted removed (but the US wanted to pretend removing the missiles in Turkey had no connection to removing the missiles in Cuba for political reasons, and Khrushchev allowed this).

U2 Spy planes took arial photographs

It was the height of the Cold War. There was serious mistrust between the Soviet Union and the US and many other western nations. Kennedy had military experience during WW 2, and as president he was involved in the then escalating conflict in Viet Nam. There was no way that he was going to allow the Soviets to arm a nuclear missile site in Cuba, just a few miles from US territory. He had to act decisively, and he did. He brought the crisis to an end without bloodshed. There is no doubt that he would have used force if the Soviets had pushed. We can all be very thankful that they did not.

Missiles travel at different speed depending on purpose . An average Tomahawk cruise missile will travel at about 550 mph- but in that case stealth and accuracy are paramount to speed. -Common anti aircraft missiles like Sidewinder travel about 2,100 mph above launch speed. The latest ASRAAM, as used by Australian and Royal Air Forces flies at about 2,800 above launch speed. Russia is reputed to have developed a ground based AAM that can fly over 10,000 mph

Russia placed missiles in Cuba during the cold war to provide counter attack if the USA. made a attack. The missiles were eventually moved out of Cuba when JFK won a debate between Fidel Castro, JFK, and Nikita Khrushchev.
because the U.S. already has missiles in turkey
The Soviet missiles were located in Cuba, because it was close enough to the Soviet enemy(US), and Fidel Castro was willing to put the missiles in his country.

We felt it was okay because we are who we are. A global power who feels it is acceptable to do whatever we feel like in the pursuit of "freedom". The missiles in Turkey were obsolete before the Cuban Missile Crisis began and President Kennedy had directed that they be removed. However the bureaucracy had not done that, creating the opportunity for the unflattering comparison. It is a matter of perspective and point of view. The Soviets would object to missiles in western Europe or in Turkey (first generation nuclear missiles placed there in 1949) as a provocation (much like the way current Russian leadership views the placement of missile defense technology in Poland & Czech Republic). Our policies in the post-WWII period were determined by the Truman Doctrine to contain communist expansion in Europe, but the Caribbean is our back yard, governed by our interests and the Monroe Doctrine. The placement of missiles in Cuba (after a failed attempt to overthrow Castro) was a surprise move, beyond what we would expect the Soviets to do in eastern Europe.

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There is no picture of any actual missiles in Cuba.. All the pictures are of sites and trucks and empty carriers and items covered up. The entire ploy was to get the US to remove Missiles from Turkey.

A spy plane took a picture of the where the missiles were being stored.

SS-4 medium range missile, SS-5 intermediate range missile, Luna ground-to-ground rockets, and the FKR cruise missile.

Everything South of Washington, DC and West to New Orleans was in range.

Yes, missiles from the Soviet Union were transported to and assembled in Cuba before the 1963 Cuban missile crisis.

In the documentary movie "The Fog of War", Robert McNamara (then the Secretary of Defense for the Kennedy administration) tells of a discussion of his in the 1990's with Cuba's leader Fidel Castro. McNamara recalls that Castro said he not only had nuclear warheads available on the island, but that he would have used them on the US if the US had invaded. Stunned by this McNamara asked if Castro would do this knowing full-well that the US would respond with overwhelming nuclear force, and Castro answered "Yes."

I recommend you read about the Cuban Missile Crisis on Wikipedia and there's an excellent little book on the Cold War titled "The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction" by Oxford university press.

The presence of Soviet Missiles on Cuba was a problem at the time because Cuba is only a few hundred miles from the US Coast, easily within reach. However, at the time the US had no Missiles that could reach the Soviet Union, so they could fire at us and we couldn't fire back.