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The closest the Cold War came to nuclear war was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. In what month and year?
The Cuban Missile Crisis ran from 16 October 1962 (when U-2 photography first confirmed the Soviet missile sites in Cuba) to 28 October 1962 (when Khrushchev announced the withdrawal). The Berlin Wall went up in August 1961 — fourteen months earlier. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963 — a year after the crisis ended. Sputnik was October 1957 — five years before the crisis.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was the 13-day Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962 over Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. It is the closest the world has come to nuclear war and the foundational case study of modern crisis diplomacy.
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