It did happen. We could learn a lot to apply to future peace by studying history. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1124680429/cuban-missile-crisis-60th-anniversa

It did happen. We could learn a lot to apply to future peace by studying history. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1124680429/cuban-missile-crisis-60th-anniversary https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1124680429/cuban-missile-cris... And USSR wanted USA out of neighboring Turkey. "Ultimately, Khrushchev received an assurance that the U.S. would not invade Cuba and, in a deal that remained secret for a quarter century, the U.S. also promised to remove its missiles from Turkey."