Sixty years ago the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
This file aerial photo taken on December 4, 1962, after the Cuban missile crisis, shows the Soviet freighter “Okhotsk” carrying “Ilyouchine IL 28” missiles in accordance with the US-Soviet agreement on the withdrawal of the Russian Missiles from Cuba, off the Cuban coast. – October 22, 2022, marks the 60th anniversary of US president John F. Kennedy announcing a naval blockade around Cuba, at the start of the ‘Cuban missile crisis.
On September 4, US President John F. Kennedy warns that the “gravest consequences” will follow if significant Soviet offensive weapons are introduced into Cuba. The next day US military units begin moving to bases in the southeastern United States as intelligence photos from another U-2 flight show additional sites, and 16 to 32 missiles.“I have not assumed that you or any other sane man would in this nuclear age, deliberately plunge the world into war which it is crystal clear no country could win and which could only result in catastrophic consequences to the whole world, including the aggressor,” he writes.
In a letter to Kennedy, Khrushchev proposes removing Soviet missiles and personnel if the United States guarantees not to invade Cuba.The next day a US U-2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba, killing its pilot, Rudolph Anderson, who becomes the sole fatality of the crisis.
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