The correct answer is D. The conflict that lasted 13 days and threatened global nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Explanation:
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict between the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba in October 1962, generated by the discovery by the United States of bases of Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuban territory.
The crisis covered the period between the discovery of the R-12 and R-14 medium-range ballistic missiles of the Soviet Union (October 15, 1962) until the announcement of their dismantling and transfer back to the Soviet Union (28 October 1962). That is, everything happened in a period of 13 days.
Gertrude reaction advances the plot of the play by suggesting that Ophelia's Madness might be far worse than it seems , and it turned out that Griffin was correct and Ophelia ultimately drowned and died
