Cuban missile crisis ends, October 28, 1962
The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. President Kennedy has imposed a blockade to prevent any Soviet vessel from entering Cuban waters. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sees that the American president is ready to conduct a nuclear war if pushed to the limit. Yes, the United States will be gone forever. But so will the Soviet Union. And so, a commentator for Radio Moscow states that the Soviets choose to “dismantle the arms . . . and to crate and return them to Soviet Russia.” After twelve long days the Cuban missile crisis is over.