conducted demonstrative aboveground nuclear tests, and Soviet submarine commanders, on their way to Cuba, were authorized to use nuclear torpedoes at sea. Over the next few days, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union heightened. military’s alert status to DEFCON 2, one step short of actual nuclear war. Kennedy enacted a blockade around Cuba and addressed the nation, and the world, on television, saying he was ready to take military action if necessary. The next day, the CIA determined that these bases were actually nuclear-missile sites, set up under our noses by the Soviet Union and discovered by pure luck. On October 14, 1962, an American U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba and took hundreds of pictures of military installations on the island.
0 kommentar(er)
