CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of knowledge by exploring some relevant facts and figures regarding the Cuban missile crisis. In this paper, the main emphasis has been given to the important aspects and the role of political negotiations in stabilizing the impact of the crisis. In 1962, the so-called Cuban missile crisis, flared when the U.S. authorities came to know that the Soviets were stationing ballistic missiles in Cuba (a Communist country, close to the U.S., with which Kennedy's government had broken off diplomatic relations). The missiles were capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and had sufficient range to reach the continental U.S.

Cuba was a country closely tied to U.S. interests since independence from Spain in 1898. Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959, which initially was not defined as a communist but had a clear nationalist, began to take measures which damaged U.S. interests. Washington's reaction was immediate severance of relations in 1961, imposing an economic blockade, excluded Cuba from the OAS (Organization of American States) and organized by the CIA's secret operations, a failed invasion at the Bay of anti-Castro émigrés Pigs or Playa Giron in April 1961.In October 1962 the world for a short time was on the brink of nuclear war. The evaluation secret aerial photographs proved that the Soviet medium-range missiles stationed in Cuba with nuclear warheads. With a range of up to 1800 km, it could have taken the entire southeastern United States, including Washington and for 13 days the world held its breath.

In 1959 an armed group seized power in Cuba. The nationalizations that implemented the new government of Fidel Castro deteriorated relations with the United States. In January 1961 Havana and Washington broke off diplomatic relations. In April of that year a group of Cuban mercenaries with support ...