The Cuban Missle Crisis was the USSR's response to the US putting mid-range nuclear missles in Turkey. If the US could put Nukes on USSR's doorstep, the USSR wanted to be able to do the same; and after the Bay of Pigs, Castro was ammenable to anything that would provide additional protection from the US.
1961 was an eventful year.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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