The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cuban Missile Crisis - A Brief History
On October 26, UNB announced that Fidel Castro sent a message to Nikita Khrushchev encouraging a nuclear first strike against the United States. That evening, President Kennedy was notified that there had been no slowdown in activity at the Cuban missile sites and nothing had changed. Khrushchev then sent aMessage to Kennedy which for the first time was not threatening but rather called for cooler heads to prevail.
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