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Cuban Missile Crisis
the united states started to build missle bases in Turkey and Italy which would attack the capital of the Soviet Union, Moscow
The Cuban missle crisis is the name for the soveit union and cuban government responding by builidng missile bases in Cuba within range of attacking the United States
The united states then bagan to react when images of missile bases emerged
JFK then formed the EX-COMM, which was a group of people designated to handle the situation at hand.
Eventually Kennedy decided to form a naval blockade around the island of Cuba
didnt want any more missile supplies get into Cuba
THe US then demanded that the soviet union dismantle the bases in exchange of the US agreeing to not invade Cuba
Eventually, the whole Crisis subsided with the US and USSR getting rid of the bases in the problem areas
Soviet union took missles out of cuba then US said we would never invade Cuba
The United States had attempted to invade Cuba in 1961 which failed
Fidel Castro was confident that the US would attempt a second attack
when premier Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR proposed the idea, Castro thought it would prevent another invasion.
During October of 1962 there was much fear of a Nuclear War breaking out
one wrong move could start a nuclear war
The united states was ready to attack cuba if anything were to happen
if a missile was to be launched, it would be taken as an attack against the US
while this, at the time, seemed like so many people were about to die, only one person was actually killed from combat
eleven others died from a few aircrafts crashing
during the crisis there were sevearl exchanges of communication
many of these were from Krushev attempting to prevent Kennedy from attacking
October 15, images of bases were revealed
October 16, JFK was informed
October 22, Kennedy announced that thee were missile bases
October 28, Krushchev began to dismantle the bases, which ended the crisis
Ronald Regan's Strategic Defense Initative
purpose was to develop an anti- ballistic missile system
this was thought to protect us from missile attacks on other countries, especially the Soviet Union
It was out response to predicted nuclear attack from other countries
was given the nickname star wars because it involved many lazers and crazy out of this world ideas
Critics
thought it would create a new arms race with ballistic missile defense
said it would do nothing but anger the soviet union more
it would be a waste of money and wouldnt help us at all
critics thought we wouldnt have enough room to set up research for this
the plan
weapons needed for the plan required nuclear X ray lasers, projectiles that were computer guided that would be fired by electomagnetic rail guns, and subatmoc beams
these weapons also required a lto of space
much power was need for this, too much
it would take over a billion dollars to voer all expenses
we planned on intercepting ballistic missiles as they were still flying in space above the earch
to oversee the program, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was established
lazer and mirroe experiments were done
money was raised and donated to help the program
research and development was being done
failure of the plan
some of the ideas were too far fetched
nuclear power was the mother that was planned to be used, it was difficult to constgruct so many power plants
the designs of the plan were close to impossible to create
not enought space was created and lazers couldnt be used
it was decided that the initiative was over and 30 billion dollars were invested at the end
no mirror or lazer systems were ever created
The MDA today
the missile defense agency has taken reagan's challange to develop anti ballistic missile technologies
protect the united states today includiong out allies against missile attacks
dont have lasers yet but still researching it
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