The Cold War -- Revolution in Cuba -- Cubans in the United States -- Bay of Pigs invasion -- The Soviet Union and Cuba -- Missiles in Cuba -- Reaction in the United States -- The US quarantine -- The nuclear arsenal -- The world holds its breath -- Khrushchev backs down -- After the crisis.
Summary
Examines the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War standoff in which the United States and the Soviet Union--and the world--narrowly escaped nuclear war.