Cuba-Russia Relations - Ambassadors of Cuba to Russia, Cuba - Soviet Union Relations, Cuban Missile Crisis, Ogaden War (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ambassadors of Cuba to Russia, Cuba - Soviet Union relations, Cuban Missile Crisis, Ogaden War, Juragua Nuclear Power Plant, Intercosmos, I Am Cuba, Nikolai Leonov, Operation Anadyr, Intersputnik, San Antonio de los Banos Air Base, Soyuz 38, 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 crash, Isabel Allende Karam, Lourdes SIGINT Station, Operation Toucan, Juan Valdes Figueroa, Crateology, Boca de Jaruco, Jorge Marti Martinez, Embassy of Cuba in Moscow, Popular Socialist Party. Excerpt: The Cuban Missile Crisis (known as The October Crisis in Cuba or Russian: Caribbean Crisis in Russia) was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. In September 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban regime (Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose), the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States. This action followed the 1958 deployment of Thor IRBMs in the UK (Project Emily) and Jupiter IRBMs to Italy and Turkey in 1961 - more than 100 U.S.-built missiles having the capability to strike Moscow with nuclear warheads. On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane on a photoreconnaissance mission captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba. The ensuing crisis ranks with the Berlin Blockade as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. It also marks the first documented instance of the threat of mutual assured destruction (MAD) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. The United States...