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FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG ~

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WE WILL BE BACK ON LINE WEDNESDAY
THE 30TH!

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1962

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Complicated and tension-filled negotiations between the United States and
the
Soviet Union finally result in a plan to end the two-week-old Cuban
Missile Crisis
. A frightening period in which nuclear holocaust seemed
imminent began to come to an end. 

Since President John F. Kennedy’s October 22 address warning the Soviets
to cease their reckless program to put nuclear weapons in Cuba and
announcing a naval “quarantine” against additional weapons shipments
into Cuba, the world held its breath waiting to see whether the two
superpowers would come to blows. U.S. armed forces went on alert and
the Strategic Air Command went to a Stage 4 alert (one step away from
nuclear attack). On October 24, millions waited to see whether Soviet
ships bound for Cuba carrying additional missiles would try to break
the U.S. naval blockade around the island. At the last minute, the vessels
turned around and returned to the Soviet Union.

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Khrushchev                Castro                                 Kennedy

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