The Cuban Missile Crisis
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https://doi.org/10.61841/cztc1528Keywords:
Cuban Missile Crisis, Cold War, Nuclear diplomacy, USSR, USA, Arms race, Détente, NATO, Warsaw Pact, International Relations, United NationsAbstract
The crisis of October 1962 was one of the most dangerous conflicts of the Cold War period which bringing the world perilously close to nuclear disaster. This article aims at analyzing the origin of the conflict between United States and Soviet Union with emphasis on strategic and ideology factors that characterized the conflict. It examines related power politics on the international stage, such as the Soviet Union putting missiles in Cuba in response to the placing of American missiles in Turkey, and related standoff. The nature and consequences of the crisis are described, as well as its contribution to future arms control talks, the process of détente and relations within NATO and the Warsaw Pact. This paper expands the understanding of the dynamics of diplomacy and the role of the United Nations when preventing global disasters when evaluating the aftermath for further development of international security and relations between superpowers.
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