⚔️📍 Washington D.C., USA1962
Cuban Missile Crisis — Kennedy's Address to the Nation
President Kennedy addressed the American people to announce the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba and demand their removal, imposing a naval blockade. For thirteen days, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has come to nuclear war; its resolution through back-channel diplomacy established the protocols for superpower crisis management.
Outcome
Soviet missiles removed; nuclear war averted