WASHINGTON (WHSV) – Over 60 years in the past on Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a televised speech about U.S. spy planes’ discovery of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
Kennedy then introduced that he would order a naval quarantine of Cuba to forestall the transportation of any further weapons with a view to finish a “clandestine, reckless and provocative risk to world peace,” according to History.com.
This deal with got here per week after the incident often known as the Cuban Missile Disaster started on Oct. 14, when Kennedy first referred to as a secret, emergency assembly to debate the developments in Cuba. Tensions escalated over the course of the week and following Kennedy’s deal with, as the USA and the Soviet Union practically hit the purpose of nuclear conflict.
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