Maybe. But that was just a reaction of the USSR to the USA stationing some serious kit in Italy and Turkey. Namely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupit

Maybe. But that was just a reaction of the USSR to the USA stationing some serious kit in Italy and Turkey. Namely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir_Air_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir_Air_Station in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0zmir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0zmir Now look at a map and compare the distance to the former territory of the Soviet Union and associates, and compare that with the distance of Cuba to the CONUS. Whining pinschers...