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    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy...
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  • Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath, also known as The Day After: Fight for Promised Land and known in Russia as Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский...
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    "The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1961", U.S. Department of State. Web. Mar. 2010. "Timeline of the Cuban Missile Crisis | The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Look Back...
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    Vasily Arkhipov (category Cuban Missile Crisis)
    against ships of the United States Navy at a crucial moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The course of events that would have followed such...
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    readiness condition of DEFCON 1 to prepare for nuclear war. During the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 16–28, 1962, the U.S. Armed Forces (with the exception...
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    the most dramatic incidents of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet Navy deployed four Project 641 submarines to Cuba: B-4, B-36, B-59, and B-130 of the...
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    were placing missiles in Cuba before most of them were operational. It also gave US President John F. Kennedy, during the Cuban Missile Crisis that followed...
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    would be no other. The Cuban Missile Crisis resulted in Nikita Khrushchev publicly agreeing to remove the missiles from Cuba, while John F. Kennedy secretly...
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    Operation Mongoose. Operation Mongoose: The Cuba Project, Cuban History Archive, 20 Feb 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, The National Security Archive....
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  • At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. was unaware that the U.S.S.R. possessed nuclear-armed-torpedoes. Before the crisis, the U.S. had been...
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    weapons, missile sites and test blast areas. He provided intelligence to policymakers during World War II, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam...
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    Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Suez Crisis of that same year, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Vietnam War of 1964–1975...
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    of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba. During this mission, they both flew RF-8 Crusader aircraft. After the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Ecker received...
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    nuclear war nearly broke out during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced a severe economic downturn in...
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    significantly eroded by domestic policy failures and his mishandling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Such developments emboldened his political rivals who quietly rose...
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    that nuclear weapons be kept aloft." On 22 October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the airborne alert was immediately increased 1/8th level under an...
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    crucial role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, providing essential low-level photographs of Soviet medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) in Cuba that were impossible...
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    P-15 Termit (redirect from Styx (missile))
    The first use of these weapons was in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Komar-class missile boats were deployed in Operation "Anadyr" ("Анадырь")...
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    tanks and reduce tensions. The Cuban Missile Crisis, a confrontation on the stationing of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in response to the failed Bay...
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    the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969...
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    A Nuclear Nation". www.atomicarchive.com. "Theater Missile Systems". fas.org. "Cuban Missile Crisis". www.atomicarchive.com. "Document 65 – Foreign Relations...
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    Carpenter, on 24 May 1962 off Puerto Rico. With the onset of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the autumn of 1962, DesRon 2, commanded by Capt. George R. Reinhart...
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    EXCOMM (category Cuban Missile Crisis)
    officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. It was composed of the regular members of the National Security...
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    in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis to 1968. After 1968, the USSR provided substantial direct economic aid to Cuba. At times, the relationship...
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    readiness to respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then he visited troops in nearby training areas. After the Cuban Missile Crisis had passed, the Cold War...
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    panels: "The Race to Build the Bomb and the Decision to Use It", "Cuban Missile Crisis and the First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", "The Cold War and the Nuclear...
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    height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, Mikoyan accompanied his father Anastas Mikoyan, as his executive secretary, to Cuba in high level...
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  • Thirteen Days (film) (category Films about the Cuban Missile Crisis)
    political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership...
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    Soviet submarine B-59 (category Cuban Missile Crisis)
    submarine of the Soviet Navy. B-59 was stationed near Cuba during the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and was pursued and harassed by US Navy...
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    Staff of the Air Force, he called for the bombing of Cuban missile sites during the Cuban Missile Crisis and sought a sustained bombing campaign against North...
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