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Publicēts: 30.11.2003.
Valoda: Angļu
Līmenis: Vidusskolas
Literatūras saraksts: Nav
Atsauces: Nav
  • Eseja 'The Cuban Crisis', 1.
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The world never came closer to a nuclear war than it did 37 years ago on October 16, 1962. It was called "The Cuban Missile Crisis". America was holding their breath as the possibility of a nuclear grew greater and greater as the Soviet Union continued to supply Cuban with thermonuclear weapons. They say it started at mid - day, and again in the early evening of October 16, 1962. The president John F. Kennedy called together a group of his closest advisors at the White House. Late the night before, the CIA had produced detailed photo intelligence identifying Soviet Union was building secret nuclear missile installations under construction on the island of Cuban, a mere 90 miles off the shores of Florida; now the president and his men confronted the dangerous decision of how the United States should respond.…

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