The Cold War 1950-1975

--Was the Cuban missile crisis a success for containment"--

"Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread ... and we weren't counting days or hours, but minutes."

-Soviet General and Army Chief of Operations, Anatoly Gribkov

The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation during the Cold War between the United States and the USSR that started in 1962. Regarded by many as the closest the world has approached to nuclear war, the crisis began when the United States discovered that Cuba had secretly installed Soviet missiles able to carry nuclear weapons. The discovery led to some tense days and the United States imposed a naval blockade of Cuba and demanded that the USSR remove the missiles. With Cuba being a new pro-Communist state right off the coast of the USA, the Crisis was surely a real test for the USA's policy of containment. But was...