The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a very controversial issue for the United States. On the morning of October 16, when it was brought to the United State's attention that Russia was placing atomic weapons in Cuba, after the frenzy that first seized the Cabinet, the main question on everybody's mind was, "how are we going to deal with this problem?" "The decision-making procedures used by the Kennedy Administration during the Cuban Missile Crisis were highly effective". How the United States received and dealt with this important matter was correct to the fullest extent.

President Kennedy, at first, did not know how to retaliate towards the Russians placing missiles in Cuba. These were weapons of mass destruction, which could kill as many as 80 million people with one strike, yet we did not know whether they were to be used upon us or if they were merely being used for protection. "The photography having indicated that the missiles were being d...