The U.S. was kicking the Soviet Union's butt in the arms race. The Soviet Union's missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but the U.S. missiles were capable of taking out the whole Soviet Union. Then in 1962, Nikita Khrushchev came up with a dumb idea to put missiles in Cuba, which would decrease the chances of having a potential U.S. strike against the Soviet Union.

Fidel Castro was looking for a way to defend Cuba, which explains why he let Soviet missiles in. Castro felt that after the failure of the Bay of Pigs, a

I think that this is the most influential event because they're fingers were on the little red buttons that would fire the missiles, and all it would take is for that little finger to slip and press it accidentally (or intentionally), and we would all be dead. This is the first time that the fate of the world was held in the hands of two human beings. I wasn't alive then, but I can imagine the fear in people when they heard that there were nuclear missiles aimed at the U.S. But deep down inside, I don't think that anyone would've fired a missile because anyone dumb enough to do that should be in either a mental institution, or should be sent on the next plane to outer space. Because I think that they knew what would happen if they decided to launch a nuclear attack, and they decided it wasn't worth becoming extinct because of a dumb decision that they would regret later, but wo

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