   the cuban missile crisisâknown as the october crisis (), the missile scare or the caribbean crisis (, tr. karibskiy krizis) was a 13-day confrontation in october 1962 between the united states and the soviet union over soviet ballistic missiles deployed in cuba. it played out on television worldwide and was the closest the cold war came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. in response to the failed bay of pigs invasion of 1961, and the presence of american jupiter ballistic missiles in italy and turkey against the ussr with moscow within range, soviet leader nikita khrushchev decided to agree to cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in cuba to d
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