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The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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What Did Fidel Castro Think of This?

The soviets planned to build a missile base in cuba. The plan was kept secret by using the tactic of maskeroka, which means 'denial and deception' Cuban leaders were enthusiastic but castro may not have been wild about it. But russian officials had convinced castro to accept the missiles.

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