The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cold War - A History of the Cold War
U.S. naval ships were deployed around Cuba to prevent any ship from delivering military equipment. The next day, October 23, Khrushchev replied to Kennedy reiterating that weapons in Cuba were only defensive. Letters with evidence of the Soviet missiles were also delivered to other U.S. allies and put on DEF CON 3. On October 25, things got even worse when the UN Security Council met; the Soviet ambassador still refused to acknowledge the existence of Cuban missiles.
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