Question

What was the main reason for the tension in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 1

Answer: The urgency of the issue, according to American officials, arose from the fact that nuclear-armed Cuban missiles were being deployed so close to the US mainland–just 90 miles south of Florida.

Answer 2

In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles.

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