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Near World destruction - The Cuban Missile Crisis
Title: Near World destruction - The Cuban Missile Crisis
Category: History
Details: Words: 1837 | Pages: 7.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Near World destruction - The Cuban Missile Crisis
Near World Destruction
Nuclear destruction, when those two devastating and frightening words are brought up one thought comes to mind, The Cuban Missile Crisis. This was the closest the world has ever come to being blown apart by the people living on it. In April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM) in Cuba. Placing IRBM in Cuba would double the Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real deterrent …showed first 75 words of 1837 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1837 total…successful one, as well as one which both sides wanted to occur (Archer). Neither country could claim victory in this crisis because both sides got what they desired. The Americans got the missiles removed from Cuba, and the Soviets got the U.S. missiles taken out of Turkey, as well as an American promise never to invade Cuba again (Hurt). Victory was indeed declared by the world when it was saved from near world destruction.
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