The Cuban Missile Crisis Never had the world been closer to nuclear destruction as it had been in nineteen sixty-two. During the month of October there were, in Cuba only ninety miles off the southern tip of Florida, Soviet offensive weapons. The following fourteen days were nerve racking and intense. President John F. Kennedy and his EX-COMM advisors delicately handled this situation, their plan was successful. This near disaster was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The …showed first 75 words of 1459 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1459 total…Cuba as the President received the final letter. This letter ended the crisis. Robert McNamara has said, " the world was one step away from nuclear war" (Internet1). If the President had learned of Khrushchev's letter just a little later than he had, an invasion would have happened. In retaliation nuclear missiles would have probably been fired. Just an hour's difference could have changed history, and the existence of Cuba or the United States, or both.