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The Cuban Missile Crisis was on the brink of spinning out of control but not necessarily on the brink of nuclear war
In October of 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union came head to head in what is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... Many different theories and contradicting documents about the Cuban Missile Crisis make it difficult to determine what actually happened; however, it is clear that the occurrence was very dangerous, and if circumstances had been different and the event not handled carefully, it could have come very close to spinning out of control. ... Prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis the United States was heavily involved in trying to suppress Castro’s revolution in Cuba. In 1960 the CIA trained Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland, known today as the Bay of Pigs. ... Although this is a convincing argument containing validity over the Soviet’s concern with the strategic balance, Patterson points out that “Khrushchev would have never had the opportunity to install dangerous missiles in the Caribbean if the United States had not been attempting to overthrow the Cuban government,” (Problems, 431).
Approximate Word count = 717
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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