Sunday morning, October 14, 1962, two U-2 surveillance spy planes took flight over Fidel Castro's Cuba. After taking numerous pictures of the area, the United States did their routine analyzes of the photographs. After months of suspicion of Russian nuclear weapons installation, it was proven that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear weapons in Cuba. The photographs suggested that two types of missiles were being installed. "The first was medium-range ballistic missiles, capable of traveling about 1100 nautical miles. The second type was intermediate-range ballistic missile, capable of traveling about twice the distance of the first. Most major American cities, including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, and Chicago were within the range of these missiles and would have been likely targets."…
