(the) Cuban missile crisis

(the) Cuban missile crisis
a dangerous political situation that developed in 1962 between the US and USSR. President ↑Kennedy became aware that there were Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba and sent the US Navy to stop Soviet ships from bringing more. It seemed possible that there would be a nuclear war between the two countries, but the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the Russian ships to turn back and later removed all of the weapons.

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