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Video Commemorates Cuban Missile Crisis 50th Anniversary

October 18, 2012AdminCold War Gallery, History, Navy Museum, News1962, 50th, blockade, Crisis, Cuba, Cuban, history, JFK, Kennedy, missile, naval, navy, October, quarantine, USSR

Fifty years ago, the world held it’s breath. When Navy reconnaissance jets and U-2 spy planes confirmed the existence of Soviet nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, the United States demanded their removal and instituted a naval quarantine of the island. The 13 days at the end of October 1962 came to be called

New Exhibit Panels for 50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis

September 18, 2012AdminHistory, Navy Museum, News1962, blockade, Castro, Crisis, Cuba, history, JFK, Khrushchev, missile, naval, navy, nuclear, quarantine, Soviets, USSR4 Comments

October marks 50 years since the tense standoff between the United States and Soviet Union that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the summer of 1962, the Soviets began moving nuclear missiles and nuclear-capable bombers to bases in Cuba, within easy striking distance of targets within the continental United States. Following

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Video Commemorates Cuban Missile Crisis 50th Anniversary

New Exhibit Panels for 50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis

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