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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. The crisis started on October 14 1962. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full scale nuclear war. In response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR with Moscow within range, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July and construction on a number of missiles sites started later that summer. These missile preparations were confirmed when an Air Force U-2 spy plane produced clear photographic evidence of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missile facilities. The United States established a military blockade to prevent further missiles from entering Cuba. It announced that they would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the weapons already in Cuba to be dismantled and returned to the USSR. After a period of tense negotiations an agreement was reached between Kennedy and Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba without direct provocation. The image shown here is from a Ministry of Foreign Affairs file related to Political Affairs in Cuba - archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=20768076 The pages shown relate to correspondence between the NZ Mission to the United Nations in New York and the Minister of External Affairs about a meeting which took place detailing the United States response to the crisis. This file is open access and can be seen in the Wellington Reading Room. For further enquiries please email Research.Archives@dia.govt.nz Material from Archives New Zealand |
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| Author | Archives New Zealand from New Zealand |
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