The correct answer is<span> Mutual assured destruction
This means that both sides knew that if they started a war that they couldn't win because everything would be destroyed. There was no way for them to start a nuclear war and win without being obliterated by nukes from the opposite sides, so they just gathered their weaponry and didn't attack each other.</span>
After JFK set up the quarentine to prevent supplies to be sent to Cuba, Fidel Castro asked asked Nikita Khrushchev the leader of the CCCP (Soviet Union) for advice or help
