Soviets build nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
Building nuclear missile sites in Cuba, aimed at the US
Nakita Krushev
Soviets were establishing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
No. Cuba itself never had nuclear missiles although the USSR set up nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba.
the missile sites were dismantled and the missiles returned to the USSR and many people thought that kennedy saved the world from nuclear war on the other hand others thought that khrushchev saved the world from nuclear war
The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin american. Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba
Nikita Kruschev was the Soviet leader who had missile sites built in Cuba.
the building of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba
the building of Soviet nuclear missile sites in cuba
In the late 1950's, the Nike-Zeus program investigated using Nike nuclear missiles as interceptors against Soviet ICBM's. The Nike-Zeus project was cancelled in 1961. There were no sites for this project. It was a think tank.
Kennedy blamed Khrushchev for causing a threat to world peace due to the Soviet Union's placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba, as part of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Kennedy saw this as a direct provocation and a violation of American security. He believed Khrushchev's actions escalated tensions between the two superpowers and had the potential to trigger a global nuclear conflict.