“Good evening, my fellow citizens: This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive Missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere ”, said John F. Kennedy on the inopportune day of 22nd of October, 1962, what was seemingly the brink of nuclear war. In a series of months, leading to the said date, the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile sites on the Island of Cuba. Commanders of both imperia recognised the global emergency and publicly agreed to a deal, in which the Soviets would denudate the weapon sites, and the United States pledged not to invade the Island of Cuba. Despite the fact the missile crisis was over, the need for “mutually assured destruction”, was not. 

 

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