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The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a period in which the newly Soviet Union-supported communist island nation of Cuba faced substantial shortage, perceived and real, of medium-range ballistic nuclear missiles. With actions of the US seen as initiating the shortage and increasing the possibility of a long-term disruption in missile supply to Cuba, tensions between the US and USSR mounted until the whole thing came to a rather anticlimactic end.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which then consisted of 15 countries including the US, 13 European countries, and Britain, had been formed to resist pressure by the Soviet Union to reduce freedom and nuclear weapons in industrialised countries. NATO soon began to build up nuclear bases in Europe to gain a larger share of nuclear weaponry and thus greater control over which side of Earth would get scorched first. The communist nations of the world thus suddenly faced a unified bloc of freedom and nuclear weapon exporters. (Full article...)