Question

This Cold War event was the closest that the Soviet Union and the United States came to war with one another.

a. Berlin Blockade
b. Korean War
c. Bay of Pigs Invasion
d. Cuban Missile Crisis
e. the Soviet invasion of Panama

Answer 1

D. The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Often accredited as being the closest humanity got to total nuclear destruction. Despite seeming like nothing much, there was essentially a direct conflict between the two superpowers.

Bonus fact: Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov is the one who adverted nuclear war by NOT allowing a Soviet Torpedo to be launched at the US.