# The Cuban Missile Crisis

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After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy confronted Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in October 1962. He chose a naval quarantine while maintaining secret communications, and the crisis ended with Soviet withdrawal in exchange for a U.S. non-invasion pledge and the quiet removal of American missiles from Turkey. The episode remains central to debates about coercion, restraint, and nuclear risk.

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