The Disparity Between the Soviets and the US

The chronology of all this there's the beginning which I just mentioned October 14th U2 spy plane sees these installations takes lots of photos of a Cuban countryside with missile installations being built. CIA analysts spot these launchers missiles transport trucks that indicate the Soviets are building sites to launch SS4 medium range ballistic missiles capable of delivering one megaton warheads to US targets but keep in mind has been alluded to earlier that there is a huge disparity even though Kennedy ran on this idea of a missile gap shortly after he took office he learned that there was there was a missile gap but it was a and it was a huge one but that it was in the favor of the US.