B. The fact that communist Cuba is so close to American soil is one reason we need to accelerate our space program.
President Kennedy endeavored to topple Castro in April 1961. 1,400 Cuban agitators and outcasts, with the help of the CIA, propelled an attack of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. The assault was a calamity and flopped inauspiciously, the radicals were met by 20,000 Cuban troops. Castro killed or caught about every one of them inside days. The disaster persuaded Castro that the USA was foe; and he swung to the USSR for protection.
