Kennedy Announces Crisis: Cuban Missile Standoff
President Kennedy activated a naval quarantine and placed global forces on DEFCON 3 to halt Soviet missile shipments to Cuba after revealing the weapons' presence in a televised address. This decisive move forced Khrushchev into negotiations that ultimately dismantled the offensive threat while establishing a direct hotline between Washington and Moscow to prevent future nuclear brinkmanship.
October 22, 1962
64 years ago
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