The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962 when the United States discovered that the Soviet Union was secretly installing nuclear missile bases in Cuba, just off the coast of Florida. This led to a tense thirteen-day political and military standoff that is widely considered the closest the two superpowers came to a nuclear conflict.
The following was the major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war :
Asked in TSPSC Group 1 Prelims 2023 · Topic: World Wars (Emergence of a Bipolar World Order and the origins of the Cold War)
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