Cuban Missile Crisis, brinkmanship from "summary" of The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew
The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear conflict. The crisis was a result of the Soviet Union installing missiles in Cuba, within striking distance of the United States. The United States, under President John F. Kennedy, responded by imposing a naval blockade on Cuba to prevent further Soviet shipments of missiles. This tense standoff lasted for thirteen days, with both sides on the brink of nuclear war. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, both the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a strategy known as brinkmanship. Brinkmanship is the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster in order to achieve a desired outcome. In this case,...
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