Cuban Missile Crisis/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Cuban Missile Crisis.

Probably the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear war, a confrontation, in October 1962, when Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba, and eventually removed through a naval show of force and diplomatic maneuvering