Missile Scare

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Missile Scare is an alternative name for the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tense 1962 Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War crisis
historical event
alsoKnownAs Cuban Missile Crisis
surface form: Caribbean Crisis

October Crisis
alternateName Cuban Missile Crisis
chronology after Bay of Pigs Invasion
before Vietnam War escalation
conflict Cold War
countryInvolved Cuba
Soviet Union
United States of America
surface form: United States
describedBySource Cold War historiography
fieldOfStudy history
international relations
security studies
followedBy Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
establishment of the Moscow–Washington hotline
genre nuclear crisis
hasCause deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
hasEffect Cuban Missile Crisis
surface form: U.S. naval quarantine of Cuba

heightened risk of nuclear war
secret U.S.-Soviet negotiations
hasEndTime 1962-10-28
hasStartTime 1962-10-16
hasSubject brinkmanship
nuclear deterrence
superpower diplomacy
languageOfName English
location Caribbean Sea
Cuba
notableFor being one of the closest moments to nuclear war in history
outcome U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba
secret removal of U.S. Jupiter missiles from Turkey
withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba
participant National Security Council of the United States
surface form: Executive Committee of the National Security Council

Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
partOf 20th-century international relations
pointInTime October 1962
risk nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union
significantEvent Soviet agreement to remove missiles on 1962-10-28
U.S. naval quarantine proclamation on 1962-10-22

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Cuban Missile Crisis alsoKnownAs Missile Scare