On October 22nd, 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis began.

Cozy relations between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev caused world wide anxiety as President Kennedy orders a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships transporting nuclear armaments to Cuba. In a TV address, JFK displays aerial photographs of missile silos, which he terms a clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace. UN ambassador Adlai Stevenson then isolates demands withdrawal of all nuclear installations in Cuba. Global tension mounts before an agreement is signed in which Khrushchev reluctantly complies with Kennedy's demands. Within weeks, the missiles are dismantled and shipped back to Russia, as storm clouds of nuclear disaster fade from the Cold War horizon.

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