Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most important conflicts of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union came close to starting the third world war in October, 1962. The reason was the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in CubaInformationFor a long time, the Soviets thought that they were years a head of the US in terms of intercontinental missiles. After all, they had put 'Sputnik' into orbit, well before the US had dreamt of such an act. Most of the Soviet organizations did not believe that there was a necessity to build more intercontinental missiles (i.e., they started to believe in their own propagonda). This laxity made it harder for the Soviets to understand and deal with the fact that they had been surpassed. As it was not possible to build more intercontinental missiles (economic reasons), a group within the newly created Strategic Rocket Forces proposed the using of Cuba as a missile site. Such a move was also backed by the Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev who believed that the future of wars would involve strategic nuclear rockets (and it was he who had actually created the Strategic Rocket Forces). The Soviets, thus, decided to place medium- (MRBM) and intermediate-range ballistic (IRBM) missile
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Approximate Word count = 2050
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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