Russian missiles mark the present and also history. In October 1962, for thirteen days, the planet held its breath at the possibility that the USSR's nuclear rocket installation in Cuba would lead the United States to declare war, unable to accept a threat so close to its territory.
Early on the 16th, his advisers woke up Kennedy to inform him of the silos discovered by a spy plane on the Castro island. Faced with his worst crisis, the young president stood up to Soviet leader Khrushchev and the hawks in his own cabinet, who called for all-out war. His strength and a certain flexibility (he agreed to remove missiles from Turkey) allowed him to announce the end of the crisis on October 28. The nuclear button had never been pressed, but it had been very close.
