No, Cuba never had control of a large amount of nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union placed them their in reaction to the US placing Nuclear weapons on West Germany, Greece, Turkey, and some pacific island. The US threatened a huge invasion or nuclear strike against Cuba after they discovered the Nuclear weapons in Cuba
Goldwater wanted to use nuclear weapons on Cuba and North Vietnam.
I believe it is in turkey and the US was forced to remove them from turkey because they were threatend by Russian nuclear weapons in Cuba
No. Cuba itself never had nuclear missiles although the USSR set up nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba.
After giving a verbal warning, which was ignored, he mobilized the nation's military and sent them towards Cuba...nuclear armed. For those who aren't aware of it today; US orders with atomic weapons was always...FIRST STRIKE!
the soviet union had begun to install nuclear weapons in cuba
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No, Cuba never had control of a large amount of nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union placed them their in reaction to the US placing Nuclear weapons on West Germany, Greece, Turkey, and some pacific island. The US threatened a huge invasion or nuclear strike against Cuba after they discovered the Nuclear weapons in Cuba
The Soviet Union had begun to install nuclear weapons in Cuba.
The cuban missile crisis was a very dangerous threat to the USA. Soviet nuclear weapons was moved to cuba to enable a range to attack on the west. The president had to seal off the coast so that the nuclear weapons wont get there. If I was the president I would have seized controll over cuba.
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Because the US already had offensive nuclear weapons in Turkey. They saw it as "balancing" things.
If the island is Cuba, 1962
Goldwater wanted to use nuclear weapons on Cuba and North Vietnam.
It happened when he received nuclear weapons from Russia.
Cuba is too close to the US.
A U-2 reconnaissance flight over Cuba on October 15, 1962, captured the first evidence of Soviet SS-4 nuclear missiles being deployed in Cuba.