In October 1962, a U2 spy plane discovered Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

The subsequent 13 days were some of the tensest in human history.

The United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than at any point during the Cold War,

and it was only a last minute cooling of tensions that prevented a global calamity.

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The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis starts in 1959 with the Cuban Revolution.

For five years, Communist Revolutionaries in Cuba fought against the government of the Cuban

dictator Foulhensio Batista.

On January 1st, 1959, the Batista government fell, the rebels were in power, and the

United States found themselves with a communist country 90 miles off their coast in the

middle of the Cold War.

I am radically simplifying everything, but the Cuban Revolution will be a subject of a future episode, and this pretty much was the gist of it.

The US was none too happy about having a communist government so close to the shore.

In 1961, the US supported a very half-hearted invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles at a place called

the Bay of Pigs.

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