The Cuban missile crisis

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For thirteen days the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other over Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles deployed to Cuba under the codename Anadyr. Kennedy convened an advisory group whose deliberations were secretly recorded, rejected the majority preference for air strikes, and announced on 22 October a naval quarantine of the island, which took effect on 24 October. The most dangerous day was 27 October, when a U-2 was shot down over Cuba, another strayed over Soviet territory in the Far East, and an American destroyer group forced a Soviet submarine to surface with practice depth charges. Khrushchev announced the withdrawal of the missiles on 28 October in exchange for a public American undertaking not to invade Cuba and a private, concealed undertaking to remove American Jupiter missiles from Turkey. Later research established two things nobody knew at the time: tactical nuclear weapons were already on the island, and the submarine incident had come closer to a nuclear release than any participant in Washington understood.

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