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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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    been more severe than DEFCON 3. The DEFCON 2 levels in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and 1991 Gulf War applied only to the U.S. Strategic Air Command...
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    Vasily Arkhipov (category Cuban Missile Crisis)
    known for preventing a Soviet nuclear torpedo launch during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The course of events that would have followed such a launch cannot...
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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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    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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    the most dramatic incidents of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet Navy deployed four Project 641 submarines to Cuba. US Navy destroyers dropped practice...
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  • Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis is a 48-minute 2001 Cold War documentary by New Line Home Video with "film footage from the era [and] newly created interviews...
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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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    in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Khrushchev enjoyed strong support during the 1950s, due to major victories such as those during the Suez Crisis, the launching...
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  • foiled when the United States discovered the plan, prompting the Cuban Missile Crisis. According to the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (SAM). Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. was shot down in a U-2 during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. U-2s have taken part in post-Cold War conflicts in Afghanistan...
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    administration learned that Soviet ballistic missiles had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting Cuban Missile Crisis carried a risk of nuclear war, but ended...
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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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  • groupthink adopted during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which took place just one year later in October 1962. In the latter crisis, essentially the same political...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    as UN ambassador were the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. He was still serving as UN ambassador...
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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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    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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