56 years ago, the Cuban missile crisis took the world to the brink of nuclear war — here's what it looked like from sunny Florida beaches. On October 14, 1962, one of the US Air Force's vaunted U-2 spy planes soared over Cuba. ... To that point, Soviet nuclear weapons were vastly outnumbered by US nuclear weapons.
The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end. The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty.
