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Why did Soviet send missiles to Cuba in 1962?

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J.F. Kennedy did not think twice before deploying Jupiter MRBM's in Italy and Turkey[1] . The U.S. already had an upper hand in missile technology and the forward deployment of the Jupiter MRBM's was a symbol of the American willingness to use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union. read more

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. read more

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