During the Cuban missile crisis, 35th U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy [May 29, 1917-November 22, 1963] never shut down communications with Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [April 17, 1894-September 11, 1971]. Some of the Soviet leader's statements were conciliatory, others escalatory. Despite the advice of the military and the commentary of those associated with the previous Eisenhower administration, the President always maintained a tone that was consistent with the more conciliatory of the Russian statements. And so the Kennedy line always rang respectfully clear, but strong, to the Soviet Union: we are all mortal, we all worry about those we love and about succeeding generations, and so we must not let this lead to nuclear war. How was nuclear war to be avoided? The President recognized that just as the United States didn't like Soviet missiles in nearby Cuba, the Soviet Union didn't like U.S. missiles in nearby Turkey. He asked that the Soviets remove their defenses in Cuba - or face U.S. quarantine of Cuba, to the great suffering of the Cuban people - in exchange for a removal of U.S. defenses in Turkey. It was a win-win situation.
Nikita Kruschev, Russian PM
1962. The Cuban missile crisis. The soviet union set up nuclear missile camps in cuba
Nikita Khrushchev.
Cuban Missile Crisis of '62.
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Nikita Kruschev, Russian PM
Cuban Missile Crisis.
1962. The Cuban missile crisis. The soviet union set up nuclear missile camps in cuba
Nikita Khrushchev.
Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
JFK was not allowed to go into Cuba.
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Cuban Missile Crisis of '62.
He didn't. Kennedy forced Khrushchev to back down on his plan.
John F. Kennedy Actually there were never any missiles fired during the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK instituted a blockade to stop Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba, the Soviets backed off without a missile being fired.
The Cuban missile crisis was the mark of the brink of world destruction. President Kennedy and Khrushchev were at the brink of war. However, JFK did some shuttle and backchannel diplomacy, thus avoiding destruction of the entire planet.