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  2. Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia

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    Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...

  3. Cuba–Soviet Union relations - Wikipedia

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis had a significant impact on the countries involved. It led to a thaw in American-Soviet relations but strained Cuban-Soviet relations. Castro was not consulted throughout the Kennedy-Khrushchev negotiations and was angered by the unilateral Soviet withdrawal of the missiles and bombers.

  4. Opinion: What lessons on leadership can we still learn from ...

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    The result of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the realization that a nuclear holocaust was entirely possible. Thankfully, both Kennedy and Khrushchev abandoned any “positive illusions” they may ...

  5. Brinkmanship - Wikipedia

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis was not only the closest that the Americans and the Soviets came to an armed conflict [19] but also the "closest the world has come to [a full-scale] nuclear war." [20] The crisis was caused by the placement of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, an island that was within the US sphere of influence and launching distance ...

  6. Leadership and decision making: The Cuban Missile Crisis ...

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    The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis is a time for reflections on leadership and decision making.

  7. Today in History: Cuban Missile Crisis - AOL

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    The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.

  8. High-altitude nuclear explosion - Wikipedia

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    During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, both the US and the USSR detonated several high-altitude nuclear explosions as a form of saber rattling. The worst effects of a Soviet high-altitude test occurred on 22 October 1962, in the Soviet Project K nuclear tests (ABM System A proof tests) when a 300 kt missile-warhead detonated near ...

  9. Russia uses Cuba to make a point to the U.S.: Remember ... - AOL

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    Flashback to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The “naval training’ mission is a clear message and reminder to the U.S. of Moscow’s foothold in or own hemisphere — thanks to Cuba ...