| "Missile Crisis: October 1962" |
| 1962-2012 50th Year Commemoration of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Show Statement:
Mutual Assured Destruction is a military doctrine of strategy and U.S. National Security Policy, also known as nuclear deterrence. It assures a mutual and irrevocable annihilation of both combatants by way of thermo nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
During the month of October 1962 the USA and USSR were on the brink of launching a devastating war over nuclear missile placements in Cuba, Italy, and Turkey. It was on the day following the closing of the 1962 World's Fair hosted in Seattle, October 22nd, that U.S. President John F. Kennedy informed the American people that the United States had quarantined (blockaded) Cuba due to Soviet nuclear missile placements on that Island and the possible implications of such action.
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