Cuban Missile Crisis Research Paper

As the United States and Soviet Russia entered the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962, it was clear that this was the closest that the two sides had gotten to flirting with the idea of a real nuclear war. As a result of this fact, deliberations between the two for a compromise grew increasingly more tense, and it highlighted the similarities and differences between the United States and Soviet intentions. Clearly, it was in the interest of not only the U.S. and USSR, but the whole human race to find a peaceful compromise to the crisis, and the actions from both sides, public and secret, stopped the greater crisis of nuclear war from happening. The discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba capable of reaching most points on the North

The idea of coexistence alone meant that the Soviets had not intended to fan the flames of conflict, but wanted to watch things unravel and eventually fall (capitalism). The single fact that he said this aloud in, then moved offensive missiles in secrecy behind the backs of the Americans meant that Khrushchev might have been trying to expedite the destruction of

In fact, it is highly probable that they prevented the war from happening altogether. It was difficult too, for Dobrynin to remain calm at all times, because Khrushchev had kept him in the dark: first about the existence of short-range missiles in Cuba, and second about Soviet intentions to cross the line to see what consequences would come of it. Hence, the USSR was highly unpredictable because nobody knew what their true thought process was until they made a move, which made miscommunication and misinterpretation of actions a high risk in tipping things into all out war. Perhaps this was by design of the Soviets to remain unpredictable, or perhaps it was results of the Soviets still not knowing how to respond to being