tates, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union" (Frankel, 2002, p. 60). Thus, it seemed the U.S. and the Soviet Union had finally come to a culmination of the nuclear arms race that had begun with the detonation of two American atom bombs in Japan in 1945 and developed into the Cold War during the 1950s. Yet, six days later, the crisis was over without harm to anyone. The resolution demonstrated both President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev's willingness to compromise politically to avoid acting militarily.
After the Soviet Union announced it was dismantling the Cuban missiles, the American political and media corps tru
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