I always found this part confusing bc the US had placed missiles in Turkey beforehand However the crux of the issue wasn't that there were missiles but that th

I always found this part confusing bc the US had placed missiles in Turkey beforehand However the crux of the issue wasn't that there were missiles but that the missiles were placed secretly. There is a nice podcast series about it https://www.historyextra.com/podcast-series/cuban-missile-crisis-podcast-series/ https://www.historyextra.com/podcast-series/cuban-missile-cr...