On this day in history, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis begins
A US U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba taking aerial photographs on October 14, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis begins
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins on October 14, 1962, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict. Photographs taken by a high-altitude U-2 spy plane offered incontrovertible evidence that Soviet-made medium-range missiles in Cuba—capable of carrying nuclear warheads—were now stationed 90 mi…
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