Pre Conditions/Intro

    The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperatly behind the United States in the arms race since the Soviet Union could only strike Euorope, but the U.S.A could strike all of the Soviet Union. In May, 1962 Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of putting intermediate range missiles in Cuba. this would be a great deterent to a United States first strike. while all of this happened, the Cold War was ongoing and the communist influence was increasing in the world. Not to mention, the mid term elections were going on. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phpe0DsisbY>