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50 Years Since Cuban Missile Crisis

One of the Cold War's gravest superpower confrontations kicked off in earnest on October 14, 1962, when images from a U.S. spy plane confirmed the construction of Soviet missile bases in Cuba, about 150 kilometers from U.S. shores. The nearly two-week standoff that followed is regarded by many as the closest the world has ever come to full-scale war between two nuclear-armed states.

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